deliverance
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7.4
- noun
- /dɪˈlɪvərəns/
:
liberación
- Her deliverance from a life of hardship brought her immense joy.
- deliverance from bondage
- seek deliverance
- await deliverance
You get beaten at times, but there's going to be deliverance.
- You get beaten at times, but there's going to be deliverance.
- There is a reason that people used to think healing the sick was a sign of divine deliverance.
- We had her for over a year where she's getting daily prayer, daily deliverance, daily intercessory prayer and praying over her.
- There's also an entire folklore surrounding, you know, these sort of providential deliverances, legends about Smith and and Brigham Young.
Examples
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We thank thee, Lord, for this divine deliverance.
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I think we all ought to bow our heads... ...and give a prayer of thanks for our deliverance.
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Oh, by faith in the name of Jesus, I cry out for deliverance!
Academic text (1997) -
Her deliverance is still in God's hands.
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My deliverance from this vicious hunger.
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"We are at the end of our tether, and now or never our deliverance must come."
Academic text (1992) -
The average view of the Christian life, Oswald Chambers had said, is that it means deliverance from trouble.
Fiction book (1999) -
The combination of affliction and deliverance is characteristic of God's actions.
Academic text (1993) -
The prayers of black Christians for deliverance resonated with the immediacy of their liturgical identification with biblical history.
Academic text (1992) -
When biblical writers speak of Yahweh as Israel's Redeemer and savior, they are referring to Yahweh's physical deliverance of the nation from the hands of her foes.
Synonyms
730
1.0
An act of saving someone or something from danger
279
1.8
An act of letting someone or something go free from being held
127
3.9
The act of setting people free from control or unfair treatment
34
5.7
Help that saves someone from danger or a very bad situation
3
3.4
Releasing people or animals who were kept against their will
Antonyms
How Rescued
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deliverance comes from old Latin parts de- ('away' or 'from') and liber ('free'), the same root you see in liberate and liberty. So deliverance means being 'freed' or rescued from danger.