A sanctuary. This term is redundant, since haven means “a safe place. ” It is quite old, the earliest citation in the OED being from 1581. Haven also was for a time used as a verb, meaning “to shelter,
... [مشاهده متن کامل] ” as in Robert Southey’s poem of 1795, “Safe haven’d from the sea. ” The Times of London ( Aug. 15, 1865 ) had the current usage: “One safe haven where no nicotine perfume intrudes . . . ”
