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benighted
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Definition:3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---adj. overtaken by night: involved in darkness, intellectual or moral: ignorant.Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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These days there are so many people who think loyalty to religion is benighted, if it is not worse than benighted. I am aware of that, and I know the charges that can be brought against the churches are powerful.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.114 (2004)
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He would have admonished her, but she struck him as so savage and benighted; and for the first time he realized that she had no religion.Anton Chekhov. The Bishop and other stories
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English Catholics fantasised over the religious houses that this princess, 'both strong and mighty and also abounding in wealth and riches', would reestablish in their benighted country.
Antonia Fraser. Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, p.11 (1996)
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To make short, the winds were so favourable, the mariners so skilful, the way so short, that I fear me they will land before I can describe the manner how, and therefore suppose them now in Dover Towne in the noble isle of England, somewhat benighted, and more apt to sleep than sup.
John Lyly. Euphues and His England (1578)
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