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deliverance Definition

de·liv·er·ance (di liv′ər əns)

noun

  1. a setting free; rescue or release
  2. the fact or state of being freed
  3. an opinion, judgment, etc. formally or publicly expressed

Etymology: ME deliveraunce: see deliver & -ance

deliverance Synonyms

deliverance

n.

rescue, release, liberation; see freeing, rescue 1, salvation 1.

deliverance Usage Examples

Preposition: from

  • bondage: Passover was an annual feast when the Jews remembered their great deliverance from the bondage and tyranny of Egypt many centuries earlier.
  • sin: But you know you need God's deliverance from sin and guilt.
  • evil: Yet we pray for deliverance from the evils of persecution.
  • death: It is God's own channel to salvation, deliverance from death, with a just peace in truth.
  • power: Is the child of God to know deliverance from the power of sin?
  • demon: The training and discipling includes deliverance from demons; breaking curses and generational bondages; inner healing and baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Converse of object

  • seek: They were seeking deliverance from the tyranny of Rome.
  • accept: Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
  • bring: The one is the Coming foretold in Hebrew prophesy, which will bring deliverance to the favored nation in days to come.
  • find: Nor can he in this way find deliverance from it.
  • need: I believe I had a word from the Lord about the church needing deliverance from ' lovely times of worship ' .
  • have: In Luke 8:28 We have the deliverance of Legion.

Adjective modifier

  • miraculous: Every year the people of Israel were commanded to keep the Passover, to remember God's miraculous deliverance from slavery in Egypt.
  • wonderful: The next day I waited on him, and received a relation of his wonderful deliverance in the Bristol Channel.
  • final: We cannot hold hostage to sovereign gridlock the keys to final deliverance from the nuclear nightmare.
  • safe: In gratitude for his safe deliverance, the King bestowed a Royal Charter on the town.
  • great: Exodus Chapter 14 is the story of God's great deliverance in spite of all human odds.
  • such: And such deliverance, listen, is the common experience for all believers in Christ.

Modifies a noun

ministry: That's one of the reasons why we don't do major deliverance ministry in our renewal meetings.

Noun used with modifier

film: Got dumped in some village in the middle of nowhere, that reminded us of a scene from the film Deliverance.