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Synonyms for deliverance


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dih-liv-er-uh ns
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈlɪv ər əns



Définition of deliverance

Origin :
  • c.1300, "action of setting free" in physical or spiritual senses, from Old French deliverance (12c.), from délivrer (see deliver). Formerly also with senses now restricted to delivery.
  • noun liberation
Example sentences :
  • I earnestly thanked God for my deliverance on this occasion.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • Nothing seemed left them—not even the desire of deliverance.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Still, the fruits of that deed were the deliverance of Scotland.
  • Extract from : « Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II » by Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Even then we needed to pray for deliverance from those passions which have since pursued us.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • If deliverance from Berlin was ever to come, it had come now.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • There can be but one deliverance from them, namely, that God and they should come together in my soul.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • To its kings and princes England owed its past deliverance from him.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • "The time of deliverance is at hand," old Rotan said when he awoke.
  • Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
  • He twisted one leg around the other, a further sign of deliverance of mind.
  • Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
  • Is this, then, called death, this deliverance and separation of the soul from the body?
  • Extract from : « Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates » by Plato

Antonyms for deliverance

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