deliverance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun recovery or preservation from loss or danger
    delivery; saving; rescue.
    • work is the deliverance of mankind
    • a surgeon's job is the saving of lives

WordNet

De*liv"er*ance noun
Etymology
F. délivrance, fr. délivrer.
Definitions
  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. ✍ 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.

Webster 1913