deliverance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   recovery or preservation from loss or danger

   Work is the deliverance of mankind.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of setting free or extricating from danger, imprisonment, bondage, evil, etc.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of delivering or conveying something.

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

4. 4
   noun

   Delivery in childbirth.

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

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