deliverance
pronunciation
How to pronounce deliverance in British English:
UK [dɪˈlɪvərəns]
How to pronounce deliverance in American English:
US [dɪˈlɪvərəns, -ˈlɪvrəns]
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- Noun:
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
Word Origin
- deliverance (n.)
- c. 1300, "action of setting free" in physical or spiritual senses, from Old French deliverance (12c.), from délivrer (see deliver). Formerly also with senses now restricted to delivery.
Example
- 1. I perceived in this device the means of my deliverance .
- 2. Then how could a typhoon bring deliverance to a nation ?
- 3. Of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance .
- 4. By may 1610 the two ships , aptly named the patience and the deliverance , were ready .
- 5. In what ways do we , personally , need deliverance from evil ?