Deliverance
dɪˈlɪvərəns
Definitions
The act of being rescued or set free from danger, oppression, or confinement.
dɪˈlɪvərəns
The action of being rescued or set free.
The rescue team worked tirelessly to ensure the hostages' deliverance.
💡 Simply: Imagine you're stuck in a boring meeting, and then it ends! That feeling of freedom and relief is like deliverance. It's about being saved or freed from something.
👶 For kids: When someone helps you get out of a bad situation, that's deliverance!
More Examples
She found deliverance from her grief through volunteer work.
The prisoners prayed for their deliverance from captivity.
How It's Used
"The sermon focused on the deliverance from sin through faith."
"The city celebrated its deliverance from the invading army."
"The novel is about the deliverance from tyranny."
From Middle English deliveraunce, from Old French delivrance, from delivrer ('to free, release'), from Latin deliberare ('to consider carefully, to set free').
Historically used in religious contexts to refer to salvation or liberation from sin.
Memory tip
Think of a delivery: it's a bringing of something *out* of a situation, often a difficult one.