benightenv.
/bɪˈnʌɪt(ə)n/ rare.
transitive. To benight.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > intellectual ignorance > deprive of enlightenment [verb (transitive)]
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benighten1844
1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 56 787 A mere priestly delusion to enslave and benighten mankind.
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beˈnightening n.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > blinding or darkening of moral sense
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benightening1860
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 193 Moral benightening which seems to cast the shadow of death over the soul.
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