refuge

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛfjuːd͡ʒ/

Etymology: From Middle English refuge, from Old French refuge, from Latin refugium, from re- + fugiō (“flee”). Doublet of refugium.

A state of safety, protection or shelter.
“Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these / Find place or refuge.”
A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
“One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.”
Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
“Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world.”
An expedient to secure protection or defence.
“Their latest refuge / Was to send him.”
“This is occaſioned by this, that too too often the Teaching of a Grammar School is the ordinary Refuge that deſperate Perſons as to any other Employment in good Learning betake themſelves to; whilﬅ but a few know themſelves ſuited with intellectual and moral Abilities, and fewer have that Encouragement, when they undertake it, their Pains deſerve.”
A refuge island.
A kind of daily prayer or recitation.

Etymology: From Middle English refuge, from Old French refuge, from Latin refugium, from re- + fugiō (“flee”). Doublet of refugium.

To return to a place of shelter.
“Among these macaques, although activity cycles are quite variable from location to location, refuging is a common characteristic.”
To shelter; to protect.