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benighted
(obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
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The Porter answered, This Man is in a Journey from the City of Destruction to Mount Zion, but being weary, and benighted, he asked me if he might lodge here to night; so I told him I would call for thee, who after discourse had with him, mayest do as seemeth thee good, even according to the Law of the House.
Slighting the petty need he showed, / He told of his benighted road; [...]
(obsolete) Plunged into darkness.
(figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
(figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.
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[O]thers, held very good men, are at a dead stand, not knowing what to doe or say; and are therefore called Seekers, looking for new Nuntio's from Christ, to assoil these benighted questions, and to give new Orders for new Churches.