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Definition
lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture
- The poor, benighted innocent had never seen such a man.Chapters 13-15 (73% in)
- But Miss Mills, mistrusting the acceptability of her presence to the higher powers, had not yet gone; and we were all benighted in the Desert of Sahara.Chapters 37-39 (42% in)
There are no more uses of "benighted" in David Copperfield.
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