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Refugee

a word that probably or laver of Titus iii: 5, to be that of came into existence when the Protestants under Louis XIV. escaped from their op- pressors to other lands. It is applied also to one who takes refuge; one who flees to a place of refuge or shelter, and to one who flies for refuge in time of persecution or political commotion to a foreign country.

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