deliverance (dɪˈlɪvərəns
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Definitions
noun
- a formal pronouncement or expression of opinion
- rescue from moral corruption or evil; salvation
- another word for delivery (sense 3) , delivery (sense 4) , delivery (sense 5)
Usage examples
How do you see deliverance from your standpoint within the healing ministry?
, Absolute Truths (1994)Kalyan Singh's victory doesn't epitomise the flowering of Hindu nationalism; his downfall will not be an act of secularist deliverance.
India Today (1997)Frannie's attraction to Malloy is a wish for the deliverance of either sex or death from her own emotional numbness.
Globe and Mail (2003)The festivities mark the climax of France's commemmoration of its deliverance from four years under the Nazis.
Times, Sunday Times (2004)Her recovery -- or, in Nehemiah's eyes, deliverance -- did not help overcome a rift growing between them.
, THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician (2004)