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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it can mean one of three things: 1) "Overtaken by the darkness of the night; affected by the night", 2) "Involved in obscurity", and the most common usage, 3) " Involved in intellectual or moral darkness".
It is the antonym of "enlightened."
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 11y agoquote New Oxford American Dictionary:
1 in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance, typically owing to a lack of opportunity: they saw themselves as bringers of culture to poor benighted peoples.
2 overtaken by darkness: a storm developed and we were forced to wait benighted near the summit.
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∙ 14y agoMany people were wrongly accused, tortured and executed during the benighted era of the Salem witch hunts.
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