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Definition of deliverance
1 : the act of delivering someone or something : the state of being delivered; especially : liberation, rescue
2 : something delivered; especially : an opinion or decision (such as the verdict of a jury) expressed publicly
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Examples of deliverance in a Sentence
She prayed for deliverance as the famine got worse.
looked to the European powers for deliverance from their country's cruel tyrant
Recent Examples of deliverance from the Web
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Eventually one woman remains, cut off from her family, stranded by her dreams of deliverance.
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Trump’s envisioning a Pittsburgh in which unemployed steelworkers and coal miners wander the streets under smoggy skies, begging for deliverance from the vagaries of the international economy.
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Video games were his deliverance from depression, loneliness and social anxiety.
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On Saturday evening, Deliverance attended an emotional, at times volatile, vigil held at a MAX transit center in northeast Portland.
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In an interview in Portland, Deliverance described her son as a humanitarian who wanted to make the world a better place.
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The organization's founder, the Rev. Al Sharpton, traveled to Cincinnati to install Hilton at a Word of Deliverance service in January 2012.
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The Deliverance EP comprises six previously unreleased Prince songs recorded from 2006–2008 with mixing and recording engineer Ian Boxill.
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The audience murmured in the dark, expectant, awaiting deliverance.
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First Known Use of deliverance
14th century
DELIVERANCE Defined for English Language Learners
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: the state of being saved from something dangerous or unpleasant
DELIVERANCE Defined for Kids
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: a setting free
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