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in a personal sense, a refuge.
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  • Hé ys geworden friðstów (refugium) þearfendrä .

      Ps. Th. 9, 9 : 17,
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    Beó mín friðstów, and gedó mé hálne

    esto mihi in locum refugii, ut salvum me facias,

      30, 3.
in a technical sense,
a place of safety for a criminal, an asylum, a sanctuary
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  • Hé sceal fleón tó ánra ðára ðreóra burga ðe tó friðstówe gesette sint (

    the cities of refuge; civitates, quo possit evadere qui propter hornicidium profugus est,

      Deut. 19, 3) and libbe. Past. 167, 2.
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