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Definition of Benightedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benightedness
Literary usage of Benightedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Science (1864)
"... cannot be conceived to exist: they stand next to brute benightedness.
Applying the above argument to the Neanderthal skull, and considering that it ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1899)
"A people who have brought much ignorance, lawlessness and benightedness with them.
It is intended also for mission schools at home and abroad and for any ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"They know better than any others the life of the common people, their misfortunes,
their meagre joys, their spiritual benightedness, their cruel instincts, ..."
4. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"So far, indeed, as related to a public provision for religious teachers—the great
instance, according to Jefferson, of the political benightedness of New ..."
5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"There was—this revealed itself as the interview proceeded—just one slight palliation
of his impossible benightedness : he was not the kind of young man who, ..."
6. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1861)
"In the good providence of God they have been enabled to pass out of the spiritual
benightedness of their ..."
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