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Meanings of benighted in English

Overtaken by night or darkness.

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Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture.

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Examples for "nighted"
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Or perhaps he floated onward and without running lights, through nighted chambers.
The gunslinger
2
We all-nighted from Colorado across Wyoming and Montana, then continued up through Alberta.
Climbing Magazine
3
Then out onto the nighted highway, and then a sound of thunder overhead.
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
4
Something real and tangible, yet fraught with infinite suggestions of nighted mystery, now confronted me.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
5
Madness, of course-buthad I not now stumbled into a nighted world as mad as I?
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
Usage of benighted in English
1
In Bowles's view, the farther from London, the more benighted the place.
The red door
2
These restraints upon intercommunication tended powerfully to promote the general benighted condition.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
3
Perhaps the biggest and most benighted fools have been the best hell-makers.
Peter Ibbetson
4
I was benighted, and called here to rest and ask the way.
Wessex Tales
5
Through these numerous languages, poor benighted Africa will yet hear the gospel.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 / ...
6
For six years George Schmidt laboured all alone among the benighted Hottentots.
A History of the Moravian Church
7
The lone camper, benighted and forlorn, peered around him on all sides.
The Boy Scouts of the Geological Survey
8
They were fine-looking fellows, and the good man pitied their benighted land.
Comic History of England
9
Jason Barnes was not the benighted saint his boss thought he was.
The President's Assassin
10
Not all were benighted reactionaries or Dundas place-seekers, despite what Whigs claimed.
How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
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I was benighted for want of ghostly counsel like thine, good father.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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They were benighted, and could not return, or find their way back.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and ...
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Apostles of the cross, bearing the word of peace to benighted heathendom?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 / A Magazi...
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There had never been such pure golden light in this benighted cavity.
The Descent
15
Chadhar's bemused expression told Jadoon exactly what he thought of such benighted foolishness.
Frontier fury
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They went to that benighted kingdom to increase our collective wealth.
The Irish Times
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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