About The Word Deliverance
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Deliverance
Deliverance Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Deliverance?
[n] recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Deliverance: delivery | rescue | saving Related Terms | Find terms related to Deliverance: 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 See Also | lifesaving | reclamation | recovery | redemption | reformation | retrieval | salvage | salvation | search and rescue mission Deliverance In Webster's Dictionary \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.
He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to
preach deliverance to the captives. --Luke iv. 18.
One death or one deliverance we will share.
--Dryden.
2. Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] --Shak.
3. Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] --Shak.
Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word
more commonly used.
4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.
I do desire deliverance from these officers. --Shak.
5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or
decision expressed publicly. [Scot.]
6. (Metaph.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested
or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical
datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.
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