Definitions

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  • noun obsolete, obsolete Refuge.

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  • noun obsolete refuge

Etymologies

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Old French refuite.

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Examples

  • I asked HMH yesterday to verify, refut or comment upon Jane's tip but no one has gotten back to me yet.

    (Un)block that metaphor! Roger Sutton 2008

  • Well my wife feels the same way about the issue and makes the same arguments, so what would you say to her? rather than shut me out because i happen to have a penis, how about you stop being sexist and refut my arguments ….?!

    Think Progress » The Senate Doesn’t Trust Clergy 2006

  • Thow haven of refut, brighte sterre of day "(B, 850).

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

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