1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxii. 389 Princes vnlightened by God are so desirous of vainglorie.

1649 tr. H. Niclaes Prophecy Spirt of Love x. 121 Observeth he no difference..between the unlightened men, and the Elders of the holy Understanding in the Family of Love.

1721 E. Saunders Disc. Dangers Abusing Divine Blessing 24 That Immorality and Impiety, and all the Works of Darkness, should be the Produce and Growth of the dark and unlighten'd Parts of the World is not to be admir'd.

1840 N.-Y. Observer 26 Dec. 205/4 The Bechunnas,..in their unlightened state, must have been one of the most ignorant and degraded of the native tribes.

1972 Q. Rev. Biol. 47 126/1 The book..would seem to be addressed to those as unlightened as the reviewer rather than to professional experts.

1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida iii. ii. sig. N7 Whilst she did remain Unlighten'd with a beam of comfort.

1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 41 Some seem to live Whose hearts are like those unlightened stars Of the first darkness.

1843 H. W. Herbert Marmaduke Wyvil v.131 A long sad pilgrimage to travel, unlightened by a gleam of love.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 2 May 2/2 Sombre gloom, unlightened save for the red staves of the inverted halberds.

1929 N. Arvin Hawthorne viii. 266 We can scarcely be surprised by the almost unlightened gloom in which he lived and died.

1965 Scottsdale (Arizona) Daily Progress 28 Sept. 6/1 I itch to do the Nature Girl bit... But truth to tell, I'd be laughing with tears in my puffy, crepey, unlightened, unbrightened eye sockets.

2009 Philadelphia Inquirer 20 Nov. e2/3 [He]..is using..some bizarre prescription skin-lightening cream... His wife..accompanies her..husband with this don't-look-at-me look on her unlightened face.