benighting

A very great many of them exist and they are capable of permanently benighting our wonderful planet and all its creatures.

Bid Farewell to Nuclear Arms 2010

It's a climb infamous for benighting parties who underestimate the route or get hounded by bad weather.

From Gym Rat to Alpinist: Liz's Scary Final Exam 2008

He escaped the intentional benighting of the Philippines and her people by absorbing the best of Western culture and civilization to finally see Spain and the Philippines in the total context of the past and present, and also, of future possibilities.

Jose Rizal: Liberated by Language? « Far Outliers 2004

Brahminee bulls slain in the streets, and cartridges greased with the fat of cows, and Christian converts indemnified, and property not confiscated for loss of caste, -- and a frightful falling off in the benighting business generally; and the fierce Rajpoot grinds his white teeth, while Asirvadam the Brahmin plots, and plots, and plots.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

The high hoar cliff, the grove's benighting gloom,

Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

Doubt, which, as was said, ever hangs in the background of our world, has now become our middleground and foreground; whereon, for the time, no fair Life-picture can be painted, but only the dark air-canvas itself flow round us, bewildering and benighting.

Paras. 20-39 1909

This was one of the most potent, as well as one of the most pathetic, evils incident to slavery, and the memory of it still brings tears to the eyes of those to whom the benighting influences of the system left sensibility sufficient to estimate the force of such deprivation.

The Negro and the White Man Wesley John 1897

Rome never was so black, with all her benighting influence of Popery.

HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM. 1859

I am got so much into the cant of criticism, that I begin to be afraid lest I have nothing except the cant of it; and instead of elucidating my author, am only benighting myself.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

In sum, this is a quick-win solution to alleviating the general gloom benighting the country.

Irish Blogs The Punishment of Sloth 2010