[f. BENIGHT + -ING1.] The fact of being benighted or overtaken by night away from shelter.
a. 1639. W. Whateley, Prototypes, II. xxvi. (1640), 90. To meet with such kinde of accidents, as benighting.
1819. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 8 (1822), I. 60. Spenser … seems to have taken the idea of a benighting from Apollonius.
