Deliverance
[dɪ'lɪv(ə)r(ə)ns] or [dɪ'lɪvərəns]
Definition
(n.) The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.
(n.) Act of bringing forth children.
(n.) Act of speaking; utterance.
(n.) The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.
(n.) Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly.
(n.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Release, liberation, emancipation, redemption, escape.[2]. Extrication, rescue, acquittance.
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Examples
- He thought of Miss Ophelia's letter to his Kentucky friends, and would pray earnestly that God would send him deliverance. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And this, in especial, is the valiant Knight who fought so bravely for the deliverance of him for whom we this day mourn. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Moreover he outlined and partly drafted an epic poem on the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For three generations the Pasteurs had been tanners in the Jura, and they natur ally adhered to that portion of the population which hailed the Revolution as a deliverance. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Ay, reverend valorous sir, stammered poor Isaac, and whatsoever ransom a poor man may pay for her deliverance--- Peace! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- God send me a good deliverance! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He could not but see the death of Raffles, and see in it his own deliverance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was a great deliverance. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yet read the scroll, said the Rabbi; peradventure it may be that we may yet find out a way of deliverance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I tell thee, never will dawn a morrow so auspicious as the next, for the deliverance of the noble Saxon race. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In Kintuck, Mas'r, said Tom, looking about, as if for deliverance. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- No description I could give of her would do justice to my recollection of her, or to her entire deliverance of herself to her anger. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But my deliverance came sooner than I expected, and in a manner not very common; the whole story and circumstances of which I shall faithfully relate. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena's deliverance may be received as an atonement. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If my character, and my now dropping you, help me out of that, Mr Headstone, the deliverance is to be attributed to me, and not to you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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