A night slight
June 17th, 2008 at 06:57am Barry Wood
It’s still considered quite an honor in what’s left of the British Empire to “be knighted.”
However, to be “benighted” is not a compliment. It means either “caught or surrounded by darkness or night” or, more commonly, “intellectually or morally backward.”
The key is the “night” part. That is, in darkness, or unenlightened.
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