BENIGHTED

Overtaken by darkness. A state of pitiful moral or intellectual ignorance brought about by lack of opportunity.

“In traveling even thus almost without light thro’ naked solitude, when there is a guide whose conduct may be trusted, a mind not naturally too much disposed to fear, may preserve some degree of cheerfulness; but what must be the solicitude of him who should be wandering, among the cracks and hollows, benighted, ignorant, and alone?”

-Dr. Johnson