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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Benighted (0.00924 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Benighted.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: benighted
kemalaman
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: benighted
benighted
adj 1: overtaken by night or darkness;
“benighted (or nighted)
travelers hurrying toward home” [syn:
nighted]
2: lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture;
“this
benighted country”;
“benighted ages of barbarism and
superstition”;
“the dark ages”;
“a dark age in the history
of education” [syn:
dark]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Benighted
benight
\be*night"\ (b[-e]*n[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Benighted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Benighting.]
1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of
night; to obscure. [Archaic]
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The clouds benight the sky. --Garth.
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2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the
end of a day's journey or task.
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Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods.
--Milton.
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3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from
intellectual light.
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Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny ? --Heber.
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