Definition of "benighting" [benighting]

• Present participle of benight. (verb)

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• "A very great many of them exist and they are capable of permanently benighting our wonderful planet and all its creatures."
• "It's a climb infamous for benighting parties who underestimate the route or get hounded by bad weather."
• "He escaped the intentional benighting of the Philippines and her people by absorbing the best of Western culture and civilization to finally see Spain and the Philippines in the total context of the past and present, and also, of future possibilities."