deliverance
deliverance is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.
- 2.Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] Shak.
- 3.Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] Shak. Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used.
- 4.The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. I do desire deliverance from these officers. Shak.
- 5.Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [Scot.]
- 6.(Metaph.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absolution
- absolve
- acquire
- acquit
- acquittal
- acquittance
- adrift
- affranchise
- affranchisement
- asunder
- avoid
- avoidance
- avolation
- away
- bacon
- belle
- bird
- break
- bring
- call
- cast
- clear
- close
- collar
- come
- coop
- creep
- death
- deliver
- delivery
- disappear
- disband
- discharge
- disengage
- disengagement
- disentangle
- disenthrall
- disenthrallment
- disjoin
- dismiss
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is deliverance.
- What is one death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden called?
- What is act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] Shak called?
- What is act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] Shak. Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used called?
- What is the state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. I do desire deliverance from these officers. Shak called?
- What is anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [Scot.] called?
- What is any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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