| 释义 |
benighted, ppl. a.|bɪˈnaɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Overtaken by the darkness of the night; affected by the night (obs.).
1575in Farr Sel. P. (1845) II. 516 And so are all my lockes Bedecked..With these benighted drops. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxi, He told of his benighted road. 1815― Guy M. xlviii, Some benighted fisherman, he thought.
2. fig. Involved in intellectual or moral darkness.
1634Milton Comus 384 He that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iv. 339 You poets are benighted in this age. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1877) I. iii. 51 He was a benighted Moslem.
†b. Involved in obscurity. Obs.
1647Ward Simp. Cobler 19 Seekers, looking for new Nuntio's from Christ, to assoile these benighted questions.
Hence beˈnightedness.
1865Pall Mall. G. 5 July 1/2 Respectable old Russell Whigs, on whom charges of moral corruption operate much more powerfully than charges of intellectual benightedness. |