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

hold

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