benighted
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Benighted on their return, it is only Patsy's understanding with the mountain outlaws that gets them home alive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brideshead Benighted offers, instead, roughly a decade's worth of the author's columns for the Spectator, a British weekly magazine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Benighted, contentious, passionate, ignorant souls, countryfolk of a poor land, their generosity gave a noble ending to that hard journey.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Benighted was an ancient dame, And fearful haste she made To gain the vale of Fakenham, And hail its willow shade.
From Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed by Taylor, Joseph
Benighted, be-nīt′ed, adj. overtaken by night: involved in darkness, intellectual or moral: ignorant.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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"On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phillis Wheatley
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