Deliverance

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of setting free or extricating from danger, imprisonment, bondage, evil, etc. countable, uncountable

    "Now, another fella told me he had a sister who looked just fine Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance To a cat named Frankenstein."

  2. 2
    recovery or preservation from loss or danger wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of delivering or conveying something. countable, uncountable

    "They put the act upon the statute-book. But—by a strange deliverance of affairs—none of these objects were accomplished."

  4. 4
    Delivery in childbirth. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Old French deliverance (French délivrance), equivalent to deliver + -ance.

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