What's the difference between belight and benight?
Belight
Definition:
(v. t.) To illuminate.
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Benight
Definition:
(v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
(v. t.) To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
(v. t.) To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
Example Sentences:
(1) Round at the benighted NHS, the Mid-Staffs hospital whistleblower, Julie Bailey, has had to move home after being insulted, threatened and attacked by local Labour activists as a liar.
(2) That's because at the root of this pro-censorship case is self-flattery: the idea that one is so intrinsically Good and Noble and Elevated that one is incapable of hatred: only those warped people over there, those benighted souls, are plagued with such poison.
(3) The leak of a letter he wrote to Boris Johnson, the then Conservative London mayor, three years ago expressing his opposition to handing over more of London’s suburban rail services to a future Labour mayor, demonstrates that political considerations – rather than a desire to improve the lot of benighted commuters – appear to dominate Grayling’s decision-making process.
(4) As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.
(5) However, those poor benighted souls had other ideas: between 1945 and 1965, the number of people living under British colonial rule shrank from 700 million to five million as the empire melted away.
(6) He won an Oscar nomination and a César for Cyrano de Bergerac and is best-known in Britain for his role as the benighted and hunchback tax-collector turned farmer in Jean de Florette .
(7) He has achieved more than most ministers in that benighted department.
(8) The archbishop and the imam have been touring European capitals, seeking support for their benighted country.
(9) Set in a dystopian post-America now known as Panem, where an elite preside over a starving, benighted working class, The Hunger Games centres around a brutal televised tournament where randomly selected teens, referred to as "tributes", are whisked away to battle to the death for the enjoyment of their oppressors.
(10) Ironically, it is not Damascus but Aleppo, poor, benighted Aleppo, which is actually Syria’s largest city and was once a mighty rival to Cairo and Constantinople, that has a far stronger case for being the world’s oldest city.
(11) (b) The values of delta H (approximately 9 kcal mol-1) and delta S (approximately 27 cal K-1 mol-1) of the G in equilibrium G* equilibrium are close to those associated with single base pair opening [Wartell, R.M., & Benight, A.S. (1982) Biopolymers 21, 2069].
(12) And in onshore detention, healthcare failures , hunger-strikes and deaths continue to plague a broken, benighted system.
(13) 1-13), of small hairpins (Paner et al., 1990; M. J. Doktycz, T. M. Paner, M. Amaratunga and A. S. Benight, 1990, Biopolymers, Vol.
(14) 829-845) and another dumbbell (A. S. Benight, J. M. Schurr, P. F. Flynn, B. R. Reid, and D. E. Wemmer, 1988) Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol.
(15) Soon, though, they might all be transported back to the benighted country of Weah's birth and the most uncertain of futures.
(16) Self-reflection is obviously required on occasion, but only as a function of self-interest: to enable the elimination of mistakes that are preventing the benighted from realising your primacy.
(17) They send the message that Australia’s benighted isolation on a lonely island lost in the middle of a foggy sea must be terminated.
(18) This state of affairs is undemocratic, unnecessary and – in the long run – intolerable.” Since Ripa is the benighted statute that has provided the justification for the claims that everything British spies do is “lawful”, to hear this kind of talk from an independent insider seems almost magical.
(19) A decade after Powell’s infamous speech, Margaret Thatcher also reached out to the corners of benighted Britain with a reference to fears that the country would be “swamped by people with a different culture” .
(20) But that is not the good fortune of the luckless children of that benighted city.