deliverance

Noun

Meaning

The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.

Act of bringing forth children.

Act of speaking; utterance.

The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.

Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly.

Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.

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Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand. Orson Scott Card

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction. Daniel Defoe

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. Frederick Douglass

We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression. William the Silent

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance. Horace Bushnell

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. Edwin Arnold

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