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
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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
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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 ….?!
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Thow haven of refut, brighte sterre of day "(B, 850).
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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