benightern.
/bɪˈnʌɪtə/ One who keeps others in darkness.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > intellectual ignorance > [noun] > opposition to enlightenment > one who opposes
obscurant1799
offuscant1799
benighter1818
obscurantist1827
ignorantist1841
obfuscator1841
obscurist1917
1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris vi. 208 I, from my soul, profess To hate all bigots and benighters.
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n.1818- to come down a banker
- to come down a peg
- to come down a person like a ton of bricks
- to come down gulch
- to come down in the world
- to come down like a ton of bricks
- to come down on a person like a ton of bricks
- to come down on like a hundred of brick
- to come down on like a hundred of bricks
- to come down on like a thousand of brick
- to come down on like a thousand of bricks
- to come down on like a ton of bricks
- to come down the pike
- to come down to brass nails
- to come down to brass tacks
- to come down to cases
- to come down to tin tacks
- to come down upon a person like a ton of bricks
- to come down upon like a ton of bricks
- to come down with the money
- to come down with the money dust
- to come down with the money etc
- to come down with the money needful
- to come etc a pretty pass
- to come etc out of thin air