Bible Dictionaries
Benight

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

(2):

(v. t.) To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.

(3):

(v. t.) To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Benight'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/benight.html. 1828.