'Deliverance' definitions:

Definition of 'deliverance'

From: WordNet
noun
Recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" [syn: rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving]

Definition of 'Deliverance'

From: GCIDE
  • Deliverance \De*liv"er*ance\, n. [F. d['e]livrance, fr. d['e]livrer.]
  • 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. [1913 Webster]
  • He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. --Luke iv. 18. [1913 Webster]
  • One death or one deliverance we will share. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. [1913 Webster]
  • I do desire deliverance from these officers. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Metaph.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'deliverance'

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