Meanings of benighted land in English

They were fine-looking fellows, and the good man pitied their benighted land.

He encouraged the friends of freedom in that benighted land.

A man such as the sun may not rise upon again in this benighted land.

They are to be the chief instruments in giving the Gospel of Christ to the benighted land of their fathers.

But he at once condemned it as unskillful, wasteful, and slovenly; in short, just what was to be looked for in this benighted land.

Thanks to the success of shows such as Derry Girls and Game of Thrones, people now associate this once- benighted land with comedy, tourism and television.

This again would argue that a Christian people once inhabited these now benighted lands.

'We have been,' exclaimed the Aristocrat with deep pathos, 'as lights in a benighted land.

But such men are not indigenous to America; they must be imported, and that, too, from the most benighted lands of Europe.

"How many years is it, John, that we have struggled side by side in this benighted land?"

"A benighted land-anaccursed land!"

"Now that's the way to get by in this benighted land," said Stubbs to Chester as they made their way to the little man's room.