Wiktionary
benights
vb. (en-third-person singular of: benight)
Usage examples of "benights".
In vain does Cicero, speaking of poets, exclaim against this state of things in these words: "When the plaudits and acclamation of the people, who sit as infallible judges, are won by the poets, what darkness benights the mind, what fears invade, what passions inflame it!