Word Direct Answers

What does "deliverance" mean?

Deliverance: One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] Shak.
  2. 3.Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] Shak. Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used.
  3. 4.The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. I do desire deliverance from these officers. Shak.
  4. 5.Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [Scot.]
  5. 6.(Metaph.) 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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