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Meaning of 'deliverance' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Deliverance [ n.]
- The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.
- Act of bringing forth children.
- Act of speaking; utterance.
- The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.
- Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly.
- Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.

Meaning of 'deliverance' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . deliverance [ n]
Meaning (1):
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
Example in sentence:
  • a surgeon's job is the saving of lives;
  • work is the deliverance of mankind

Nearby Words:

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