Deliverance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: de=liv=er=ance

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Deliverance, n.
1 a the act or an instance of rescuing; the process of being rescued. b a rescue.
2 a formally expressed opinion.

Etymology

ME f. OF delivrance (as DELIVER)

THESAURUS

Deliverance

Emancipation Proclamation, abalienation, accommodation, accordance, action, affranchisement, alienation, amortization, amortizement, assignation, assignment, award, awarding, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, bestowal, bestowment, break, breakout, catharsis, cession, cleansing, communication, concession, condemnation, conferment, conferral, consideration, consignation, consignment, contribution, conveyance, conveyancing, decision, decree, deeding, delivery, demise, determination, diagnosis, dictum, discharge, disenthrallment, disposal, disposition, donation, doom, emancipation, emergence, emotional release, endowment, enfeoffment, enfranchisement, escape, escapism, evasion, exchange, extrication, finding, flight, freeing, furnishment, gay liberation, getaway, gifting, giving, grant, granting, impartation, impartment, intermission, investiture, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leakage, lease and release, liberality, liberation, lifesaving, manumission, offer, order, outlet, precedent, presentation, presentment, prisonbreak, prognosis, pronouncement, provision, purgation, purge, purging, ransom, recovery, redemption, release, removal, reprieve, rescue, resolution, respite, retrieval, riddance, ruling, sale, salvage, salvation, saving, sentence, setting at liberty, setting-free, settlement, settling, subscription, supplying, surcease, surrender, suspension, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, vent, verdict, vesting, vouchsafement

ROGET THESAURUS

Deliverance

Deliverance

N deliverance, extrication, rescue, reprieve, reprieval, respite, liberation, emancipation, redemption, salvation, riddance, gaol delivery, redeemableness, saved, extricable, redeemable, rescuable, Int, to the rescue!.

Liberation

N liberation, disengagement, release, enlargement, emancipation, disenthrallment, disenthralment, affranchisement, enfranchisement, manumission, discharge, dismissal, deliverance, redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution, acquittal, escape, liberated, out of harness, Int, unhand me!, let me go!.

Relief

N relief, deliverance, refreshment, easement, softening, alleviation, mitigation, palliation, soothing, lullaby, solace, consolation, comfort, encouragement, lenitive, restorative, cushion, crumb of comfort, balm in Gilead, relieving, consolatory, soothing, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, lenitive, palliative, anodyne, curative, here comes a man of comfort.