n. | 1. | The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; |
2. | Act of bringing forth children. | |
3. | Act of speaking; utterance. | |
4. | The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. | |
5. | Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. | |
6. | (Metaph.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; |
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DELIVERANCE, Practice. A term used by the clerk in court to every prisoner who is arraigned and pleads not guilty to whom he wishes a good deliverance. In modern practice this is seldom used.
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