'Deliverance' definitions:
Definition of 'deliverance'
(from WordNet)
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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abalienation,
- accommodation,
- accordance,
- action,
- affranchisement,
- alienation,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- assignation,
- assignment,
- award,
- awarding,
- bargain and sale,
- barter,
- bequeathal,
- bestowal,
- bestowment,
- break,
- breakout,
- catharsis,
- cession,
- cleansing,
- communication,
- concession,
- condemnation,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- consideration,
- consignation,
- consignment,
- contribution,
- conveyance,
- conveyancing,
- decision,
- decree,
- deeding,
- delivery,
- demise,
- determination,
- diagnosis,
- dictum,
- discharge,
- disenthrallment,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- donation,
- doom,
- emancipation,
- Emancipation Proclamation,
- emergence,
- emotional release,
- endowment,
- enfeoffment,
- enfranchisement,
- escape,
- escapism,
- evasion,
- exchange,
- extrication,
- finding,
- flight,
- freeing,
- furnishment,
- gay liberation,
- getaway,
- gifting,
- giving,
- grant,
- granting,
- impartation,
- impartment,
- intermission,
- investiture,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- leak,
- leakage,
- lease and release,
- liberality,
- liberation,
- lifesaving,
- manumission,
- offer,
- order,
- outlet,
- precedent,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- prisonbreak,
- prognosis,
- pronouncement,
- provision,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- ransom,
- recovery,
- redemption,
- release,
- removal,
- reprieve,
- rescue,
- resolution,
- respite,
- retrieval,
- riddance,
- ruling,
- sale,
- salvage,
- salvation,
- saving,
- sentence,
- setting at liberty,
- setting-free,
- settlement,
- settling,
- subscription,
- supplying,
- surcease,
- surrender,
- suspension,
- trading,
- transfer,
- transference,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- vent,
- verdict,
- vesting,
- vouchsafement