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Definition of Benight

1. Verb. Overtake with darkness or night.

2. Verb. Envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness. "The benighted peoples of this area"

3. Verb. Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight.

Definition of Benight

1. v. t. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

Definition of Benight

1. Verb. (transitive) To overtake with night. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive of a traveller etc) To be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To darken ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Benight

1. to be overtaken by night [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Benight

1. 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. "The clouds benight the sky." (Garth) 2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. "Some virgin, sure, . . . Benighted in these woods." (Milton) 3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. "Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ?" (Heber) Origin: Benighted; Benighting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Benight

benevolentness benevolous benexate benficiate benflumetol benfluorex benga bengal bengaline bengalines

bengola bengolas beni benifices benifit benight (current term) benighted benightedly benightedness benightednesses

benighten benighter benighting benightment benights benign benign albuminuria benign bone aneurysm benign cementoblastoma benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes

Literary usage of Benight

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary by Harvey Newcomb (1855)
"... and their arise with majesty and {,'lory in that benight-j crews murdered. The most daring acte of out cd land. Mu eh good has already been aj:com- rage ..."

2. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"The next question is, whether the defendants, benight and Sally his wife, executrix of Bidleman, are liable to a decree for the debt, of any part of it, ..."

3. Lineage Book by Daughters of the American Revolution (1908)
"Daughter of Calvin Wait benight and Mary Talbot, his wife. ... Daughter of Daniel M. Force and Mary benight, his wife. Granddaughter of Thaddeus benight and ..."

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