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noun

Refuge n.

1.

Shelter or protection from danger or distress. "Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge." "We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us."

2.

That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy. "The high hills are a refuger the wild goats." "The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed."

3.

An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance. "Their latest refuge Was to send him."

Cities of refuge (Jewish Antiq.), certain cities appointed as places of safe refuge for persons who had committed homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan.

House of refuge, a charitable institution for giving shelter and protection to the homeless, destitute, or tempted.

Synonyms: Shelter; asylum; retreat; covert.

verb

Refuge v. t. To shelter; to protect. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Refuge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Refuge" Quotes from Famous Books

... over and over, holding on to his piece the while, and struggled to his feet from amongst the bushes in which he had involuntarily sought refuge. His movements took him through a low, clinging cloud of the smoke of gunpowder, and he heard the rustling of trampled bushes as what he assumed to be his assailant dashed away. And now he grasped the fact that his shot had thoroughly roused the whole camp. ...

— Dead Man's Land - Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain • George Manville Fenn

... To the rice-swamp dank and lone, By the holy love He beareth— By the bruised reed He spareth— Oh, may He, to whom alone All their cruel wrongs are known, Still their hope and refuge prove, With a more than ...

— The Liberty Minstrel • George W. Clark

... after the visit they had made to one of the Ballarat mines. This provision of excellent reading-rooms—free and open to all—seems to me an admirable feature of the Victorian towns. They are the best sort of supplement to the common day-schools; and furnish a salutary refuge for all sober-minded men, from the temptations of the grog-shops. But besides the Public Library, there is also the Mechanics' Institute, in Sturt Street; a fine building, provided also with a large library, and all the latest English ...

— A Boy's Voyage Round the World • The Son of Samuel Smiles

... without vices. Here you are, with lots of money, stewing in a back bedroom of a second-class hotel and getting up every morning at five o'clock because you like lying in bed late. Is that your way of mortifying the flesh? Got a soul, eh? Get rid of it. The soul! That unhappy word has been the refuge of empty minds ever since the world began. You're just like a man I used to know at Newcastle. You can't think what an ass he was. A sort of eugenical crank, who talked about the City Beautiful where everybody ...

— South Wind • Norman Douglas

... with the lazy people?" I asked in many places; but there are no idlers in a commune. I conclude that men are not naturally idle. Even the "winter Shakers"—the shiftless fellows who, as cold weather approaches, take refuge in Shaker and other communes, professing a desire to become members; who come at the beginning of winter, as a Shaker elder said to me, "with empty stomachs and empty trunks, and go off with both full as soon as the roses begin to bloom"—even these poor creatures ...

— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff

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