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单词 deliverance
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Definition of deliverance in English:

deliverance

noun dɪˈlɪv(ə)r(ə)nsdəˈlɪv(ə)rəns
  • 1mass noun The action of being rescued or set free.

    prayers for deliverance
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They were praying for death for deliverance from pathetic existence.
    • The key is that we look to God for salvation and deliverance, which may be in this world, but if not, then in the judgement to come.
    • Although the person feels free, he often needs much more deliverance.
    • Everyone waits for deliverance that never comes.
    • For centuries, Italians had turned to the Virgin Mary in times of individual or collective trouble to ask for salvation or deliverance.
    • When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance.
    • We give thanks at this hour that this deliverance, in fact, took place.
    • All I know is that we said prayers of deliverance and kept our mouths shut when arguments began as to whether the bombs needed to be dropped or not.
    • After the first diaries, which deal with years of persecution and suffering, one expects this one to be a chronicle of deliverance.
    • Afraid he had not sacrificed in the proscribed manner, he squeezed his eyes shut and called out a prayer to God for deliverance.
    • Biblically, salvation means deliverance; the question is, ‘Deliverance from what?’
    • This is a key word, a ‘dramatic metaphor’ which includes deliverance from slavery, and being set free at the payment of a price.
    • Or, just perhaps, the prayers of the faithful for deliverance from ungodly rule are at last being heard.
    • He ministered in mercy to the suffering, ministered healing to the incurable, ministered deliverance to those in bondage, ministered forgiveness to the fallen!
    • As you led everyone in a prayer for deliverance from any curse over their lives, I felt a definite sense of release from bondage.
    • The aim of deliverance must continue to apply methods and paths of salvation.
    • From there, still an alcoholic, he travelled to South Africa, still looking for deliverance.
    • Such structures can be read as dramas of redemption, of deliverance from the chaotic environment of an unreasoning nature.
    • In Psalm 27, we are treated again to the language of light, salvation, and deliverance from enemies in the form of confession and petition.
    • Commentators on this psalm agree that only such a person can hope to receive an answer to their prayer of deliverance from enemies.
    Synonyms
    liberation, release, freeing, rescue, delivery, discharge, ransom, emancipation
    salvation, redemption
    historical manumission
  • 2A formal or authoritative utterance.

    the low drawl he employed for such deliverances
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Although there was a fake formality to the deliverance of Cameron's lines, Kate still believed them to be sincere.
    • Song thus contains both words and music, but speech performance is also more than just a neutral deliverance of verbal semantics.
    • What substance this is can be inferred from the deliverances of the active faculty, namely the ideas in my imagination.
    • It is not as though there is a ‘real’ private voice somewhere inside us which gives us infallible deliverances which are right.
    • We adopt a double standard: we subject religious doctrines to rigorous scrutiny that we would not dream of imposing on the deliverances of science and common sense.
    • The Commissioners discuss the affairs of the church over a full seven days of debates which lead to deliverances, which set out the Kirk's policies.
    • On the contrary, it was a faith of pure practical reason, securely founded in the authoritative deliverances of the moral consciousness, that he sought to legitimize; nothing less would do.
    • Instead it gets bogged down in motions and amendments, addendums and deliverances, overtures and the like.
    Synonyms
    utterance, statement, announcement, pronouncement, declaration, proclamation
    lecture, sermon, speech, oration, disquisition, peroration

Origin

Middle English: from Old French delivrance, from the verb delivrer (see deliver).

 
 

Definition of deliverance in US English:

deliverance

noundəˈliv(ə)rənsdəˈlɪv(ə)rəns
  • 1The action of being rescued or set free.

    prayers for deliverance
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As you led everyone in a prayer for deliverance from any curse over their lives, I felt a definite sense of release from bondage.
    • Such structures can be read as dramas of redemption, of deliverance from the chaotic environment of an unreasoning nature.
    • All I know is that we said prayers of deliverance and kept our mouths shut when arguments began as to whether the bombs needed to be dropped or not.
    • The aim of deliverance must continue to apply methods and paths of salvation.
    • For centuries, Italians had turned to the Virgin Mary in times of individual or collective trouble to ask for salvation or deliverance.
    • In Psalm 27, we are treated again to the language of light, salvation, and deliverance from enemies in the form of confession and petition.
    • Everyone waits for deliverance that never comes.
    • Afraid he had not sacrificed in the proscribed manner, he squeezed his eyes shut and called out a prayer to God for deliverance.
    • After the first diaries, which deal with years of persecution and suffering, one expects this one to be a chronicle of deliverance.
    • Biblically, salvation means deliverance; the question is, ‘Deliverance from what?’
    • From there, still an alcoholic, he travelled to South Africa, still looking for deliverance.
    • The key is that we look to God for salvation and deliverance, which may be in this world, but if not, then in the judgement to come.
    • He ministered in mercy to the suffering, ministered healing to the incurable, ministered deliverance to those in bondage, ministered forgiveness to the fallen!
    • Commentators on this psalm agree that only such a person can hope to receive an answer to their prayer of deliverance from enemies.
    • Although the person feels free, he often needs much more deliverance.
    • Or, just perhaps, the prayers of the faithful for deliverance from ungodly rule are at last being heard.
    • When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance.
    • This is a key word, a ‘dramatic metaphor’ which includes deliverance from slavery, and being set free at the payment of a price.
    • We give thanks at this hour that this deliverance, in fact, took place.
    • They were praying for death for deliverance from pathetic existence.
    Synonyms
    liberation, release, freeing, rescue, delivery, discharge, ransom, emancipation
  • 2A formal or authoritative utterance.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We adopt a double standard: we subject religious doctrines to rigorous scrutiny that we would not dream of imposing on the deliverances of science and common sense.
    • Instead it gets bogged down in motions and amendments, addendums and deliverances, overtures and the like.
    • On the contrary, it was a faith of pure practical reason, securely founded in the authoritative deliverances of the moral consciousness, that he sought to legitimize; nothing less would do.
    • Although there was a fake formality to the deliverance of Cameron's lines, Kate still believed them to be sincere.
    • It is not as though there is a ‘real’ private voice somewhere inside us which gives us infallible deliverances which are right.
    • Song thus contains both words and music, but speech performance is also more than just a neutral deliverance of verbal semantics.
    • What substance this is can be inferred from the deliverances of the active faculty, namely the ideas in my imagination.
    • The Commissioners discuss the affairs of the church over a full seven days of debates which lead to deliverances, which set out the Kirk's policies.
    Synonyms
    utterance, statement, announcement, pronouncement, declaration, proclamation

Origin

Middle English: from Old French delivrance, from the verb delivrer (see deliver).

 
 
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