deliverance
noun/dɪˈlɪvɹəns/UK
Etymology
From Old French deliverance (French délivrance), equivalent to deliver + -ance.
Definitions
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.
- Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
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.
- "We're right on schedule as far as the deliverance of those bins is concerned and everybody will have both of their bins ready to start both collections in early December," he said.
- Voluntary contributions are no longer supplementary to the deliverance of basic education requirements in many primary schools - they are essential, according to a recent survey by the ACT Councils of Parents and Citizens Associations Inc.
Delivery in childbirth.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for deliverance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA