deliverer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who rescues or frees others from danger, captivity, or oppression

   The prisoners welcomed the advancing general as their deliverer.

2. 2
   noun

   a person whose job is to carry goods, letters, or messages to their recipients

   The deliverer left the parcel with a neighbor after no one answered the door.

3. 3
   noun

   a person who presents, utters, or recites something such as a speech or message

   The deliverer of the keynote address spoke without notes.

From Middle English deliverere, built from deliver + the agent suffix -er. Deliver came through Anglo-French delivrer from Late Latin deliberare, 'to set free,' based on Latin liber, 'free.' The rescue sense preserves that origin; the carrier and speaker senses follow the later meaning 'hand over.'

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