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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refuge \Ref"uge\ (r?f"?j), v. t. To shelter; to protect. [Obs.]
Refuge \Ref"uge\ (r?f"?j), n. [F. r['e]fuge, L. refugium, fr. refugere to flee back; pref. re- + figere. SEe Fugitive.]
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Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge.
--Milton.We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.
--Heb. vi. 18. -
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.
--Ps. civ. 18.The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed.
--Ps. ix. 9. -
An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.
Their latest refuge Was to send him.
--Shak.Light must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by terracing ??? story in danger of darkness.
--Sir H. Wotton.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.
--Josh. xx.House of refuge, a charitable institution for giving shelter and protection to the homeless, destitute, or tempted.
Syn: Shelter; asylum; retreat; covert.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A state of safety, protection or shelter. 2 A place providing safety, protection or shelter. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To return to a place of shelter. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To shelter; to protect.
WordNet
n. a safe place; "He ran to safety" [syn: safety]
something or someone turned to for assistance or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying" [syn: recourse, resort]
act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort" [syn: recourse, resort]
Wikipedia
Buddhists "take refuge" in, or to "go for refuge" to, the Three Jewels or Triple Gem, (aka the "Three Refuges"). This can be done formally in lay and monastic ordination ceremonies.
The Three Jewels general signification is:
- the Buddha;
- the Dharma, the teachings;
- the Sangha, the community of (at least partially) enlightened beings, often approximated to community of monks and nuns ( Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis).
Refuge in the Triple Gem is common to all major schools of Buddhism. Pali texts employ the Brahmanical motif of the triple refuge, found in Rig Veda 9.97.47, Rig Veda 6.46.9 and Chandogya Upanishad 2.22.3-4
Refuge is a place or state of safety. It may also refer to a more specific meaning:
- Area of refuge, a location in a building that may be used by occupants in the event of a fire
- Mountain hut, a shelter for travelers in mountainous areas, often remote
- Women's refuge, another term for women's shelter
- Refuge (United Kingdom charity), a British charity for female victims of domestic violence
- A place intended to shelter cultural property, in the context of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
- Wildlife refuge, a sanctuary or protected area for wildlife
- Refuge (population biology), a location of an isolated or relict population of a previously more widespread species
- A controversial evangelical Christian "ex-gay" conversion therapy program for homosexual teenagers run by Love In Action
- Refuge (Buddhism), the basis of being a Buddhist
- Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, a book by Terry Tempest Williams
- Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Refuge, a 1988 novel by Rob Chilson
- Refuge crop, a non- genetically modified food crop planted alongside a genetically modified one to prevent or slow the development of predators resistant to its modified properties by purposely encouraging the mating of species across said crops
- Right of asylum, protection of a person persecuted for political or religious beliefs by another sovereign authority
- Refuge (protestantisme), after a period of persecussion huguenots decided to move in adjacents kingdoms
- Refuge (ecology), a place where an organism can escape from predation
- Refuge, Texas, an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas
A refuge is a concept in biology and ecology which revolves around the escape of an organism from predation. There are many forms of refuge and can include physical or temporal factors. Physical refuges are locations which are inaccessible by predators.
Temporal refuges include times of year that species may shift their breeding to minimize predation from other species.
Refuge is an EP by the German heavy metal band Rage, released in 1994. This EP contains the song "Refuge" and covers of the bands The Police, The Troggs and The Mission.
Refuge is the seventh studio album from the band Sons of Korah. It was released in November 2014 by Wordsong Artists.
Refuge is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Jessica Goldberg, based on her play. It stars Krysten Ritter, Brian Geraghty, Logan Huffman, and Madeleine Martin.
Refuge is a new spy thriller by director Eran Riklis.
Refuge is a United Kingdom charity providing specialist support for women and children experiencing domestic violence. Refuge provides a national network of specialist services, including emergency refuge accommodation ( refuges), community outreach, independent domestic violence advocacy (IDVAs), culturally specific services and a team of child support workers. Refuge also runs the Freephone 24-Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline in partnership with Women's Aid.
Refuge opened the world’s first safe house for women and children escaping domestic violence, in Chiswick, West London, in 1971. It is the largest domestic violence organisation in the United Kingdom.
On any given day, Refuge’s services support 3,000 women and children. The charity is committed to working towards a world where women and children can live in safety, free from fear.
Usage examples of "refuge".
For seventy years, defectors, malcontents, pirates, and pacifists had accreted around the refuge of our alien Queen.
Planting new male mulberry trees is prohibited by law because their pollen is a powerful allergen, and Tucson gains profit and riches as a refuge for allergy sufferers and hypochondriacs.
His brief spell in the arcology refuge had shown him how little use theoretical medicine was in the face of real injuries.
Gothic standard became the refuge of forty thousand Barbarian slaves, who had broke their chains, and aspired, under the command of their great deliverer, to revenge the injuries and the disgrace of their cruel servitude.
He drank and thanked the Maker for the refuge, then spread his blanket and drew his bearskin over him and settled to sleep.
Their last place of refuge in Staffordshire was at the house of Colonel Lane, of Bently, an earnest royalist.
Jair would tell him what had befallen, persuade him to send patrols south in search of his parents so that they could be warned of the danger that waited in the Vale, and then all of them would take refuge in the city until Allanon returned with Brin and Rone.
For this refuge he was making, and from this our mutinous Houyhnhnms meant to keep us.
Kourikos, logothete of the treasury, that you have taking refuge within your walls his wife and daughter.
AT the mouth of the pit, The Shadow encountered a rising mestizo who had picked that very refuge after the original fray.
Conscientious but morose, I went about my studies, strode dismally through the rectilinear suburban streets to the Kleinhammer-Weg, visited Gretchen Scheffler, who told me about Strength through Joy trips to the land of the midnight sun, while I went right on comparing Goethe with Rasputin or, when I had enough of the cyclic and endless alternation of dark and radiant, took refuge in historical studies.
Up on the roof, amid the strapped-down merchandise for village stores upriver, the matching sets of lawn furniture, barbecue grills, inflatable toys, the bags of plastic sandals, sun hats, boxes of canned cocoa, laundry powder, and Duracell batteries, Drake had found smoking refuge in a used obstetrical chair destined for a needy highland clinic.
The picture of these pursuits was what Miss Overmore took refuge in when the child tried timidly to ascertain if her father were disposed to feel he had too much of her.
Teneriffe was strongly fortified, as it was a harbour of refuge between Spain and her oversea possessions, both East and West.
Order was the refuge of those to whom it was not given to conform to the fruitful relations between men and women overseen by the great Four, but to seek their own sex.