Meaning of DELIVERANCE
| Pronunciation: | | di'livuruns
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| | Definition: | | [n] recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" |
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| | Synonyms: | | delivery, rescue, saving |
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| | See Also: | | lifesaving, reclamation, recovery, redemption, reformation, retrieval, salvage, salvation, search and rescue mission | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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