Deliverance
noun
noun ·4 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 recovery or preservation from loss or danger wordnet
- 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 Delivery in childbirth. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"The grasshopper chirped from her bosom, as if in gratitude for its deliverance, and Chloe on hearing it screamed again; whereupon Daphnis laughed, and took the little chatterer from its hiding-place."
Etymology
From Old French deliverance (French délivrance), equivalent to deliver + -ance.
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