Benight vs Darkness - What's the difference?
benight | darkness |
(label) To overtake with night.
(label) (of a traveller etc) To be caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination
(label) To darken
* 1922 XXV, lines 13-14
(lb) The state of being dark; lack of light.
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*1912 , (Willa Cather),
*:Over everything was darkness and thick silence, and the smell of dust and sunflowers.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness , but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(lb) Gloom.
(lb) The product of being dark.
(lb) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
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(lb) Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering.
As a verb benight
is to overtake with night.As a noun darkness is
the state of being dark; lack of light.benight
English
Verb
(en verb)- The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
- Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.