Deliverance

Definition of Deliverance

De`liv´er`ance

n.	1.	The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. - Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. - Dryden.
	2.	Act of bringing forth children.
	3.	Act of speaking; utterance.
	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.
	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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