DELIVERANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deliverance mean? 

• DELIVERANCE (noun)
  The noun DELIVERANCE has 1 sense:

1. recovery or preservation from loss or danger

  Familiarity information: DELIVERANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELIVERANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recovery or preservation from loss or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving

Context example:

a surgeon's job is the saving of lives

Hypernyms ("deliverance" is a kind of...):

recovery; retrieval (the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deliverance"):

lifesaving (saving the lives of drowning persons)

redemption; salvation ((theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil)

reclamation; reformation (rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course)

salvage (the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire)

salvage (the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction)

salvation (saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation)

search and rescue mission (a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them)

Derivation:

deliver (free from harm or evil)

 Context examples 

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.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Not the smallest suspicion, therefore, had ever occurred to prepare him for what followed;—and when at last it burst on him in a letter from Lucy herself, he had been for some time, he believed, half stupified between the wonder, the horror, and the joy of such a deliverance.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The selfish sagacity of the latter, which had at first drawn Robert into the scrape, was the principal instrument of his deliverance from it; for her respectful humility, assiduous attentions, and endless flatteries, as soon as the smallest opening was given for their exercise, reconciled Mrs. Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favour.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)