Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overtake with night.
- To involve in darkness, as with the shades of night; shroud in gloom; overshadow; eclipse; figuratively, to involve in moral darkness or ignorance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Archaic To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
- transitive verb To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
- transitive verb To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
overtake with night. - verb transitive, of a traveller, etc. To be caught out by oncoming
night before reaching one's destination - verb transitive To
darken
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb overtake with darkness or night
- verb envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
- verb make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
Etymologies
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Examples
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Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air
Archive 2010-01-01 Theodora Goss 2010
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You might be familiar with the well-publicized challenges to classics like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, or the more recent attempts to muzzle Harry Potter and (further) benight Philip Pullman's series His Dark Materials.
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You might be familiar with the well-publicized challenges to classics like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, or the more recent attempts to muzzle Harry Potter and (further) benight Philip Pullman\'s series His Dark Materials.
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How does it please the Almighty for you to deliberately benight yourself in this manner?
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How does it please the Almighty for you to deliberately benight yourself in this manner?
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Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
Last Poems by A. E. Housman A. E. Housman 1897
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And the boldest of all the fishers would hear his hammer benight.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Light of the Understanding, almost benight the Faculties, and give that melancholy Tincture to the most sanguine Complexion, which this
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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And with thy sooty fingers has benight The world's fair cheeks, blow, blow thy spite;
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