benighted
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The 37-year-old Sri Lankan Muslim arrived in Australia by boat in 2012, fleeing the sectarian violence that continues to benight the country.
From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2016
And as these shadows benight Bosnia, the threat of wider conflict looms.
From Time Magazine Archive
The following words taken from Book I of the poem are the only unfamiliar ones: benight, meaning "at night"; "so win the long years over"; eel-grig; sackless; bursten, a participle.
From The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature by Nordby, Conrad Hjalmar
So he took the lute and sang these verses, 'To our beloveds we moaned our length of night; * Quoth they, 'How short the nights that us benight!'
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
An' oh! that hope, when life do dawn, Should rise to light our waÿ, An' then, wi' weänèn het withdrawn, Should soon benight our waÿ.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William
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"On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phillis Wheatley
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