deliverance : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: deliverance	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for deliverance
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
deliverance n recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" Synonym(s): rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deliverance \Deliv"erance\, n. [F. d[82]livrance, fr. d[82]livrer.] 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. --Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. --Dryden. 2. Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] --Shak. 3. Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] --Shak. Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used. 4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. I do desire deliverance from these officers. --Shak. 5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [Scot.] 6. (Metaph.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.