be|night´ment

be|night´ment
be|night «bih NYT», transitive verb.
1. to involve in intellectual or moral darkness: »

The Aristotelian astronomy benighted science almost completely for 1,800 years (Scientific American).

2. to overtake by the darkness of night: »

The tourists were benighted in a forest (Thomas De Quincey).

[< be- + night]
be|night´ment, noun.

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