Definition of benight
-ed/-ing/-s
1
: to overtake by darkness or night especially before the end of a journey
—usually used in the passive
- there was no fear of our being benighted, for in Norway at this season it never gets dark
- —Frances Pitt
2
: to envelop in intellectual, moral, or social darkness
- what men … call religion now benighting half the earth
- —John Wilson †1854
3
: to make dark especially by depriving of light : obscure
- the cliffs were so high that the bay itself was already benighted
- —Clemence Dane
