benight
benight (be*nīt") , transitive verb
1.
To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic]
The clouds benight the sky.
2.
To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
Some virgin, sure,... benighted in these woods.
3.
To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?