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deliverance

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[ US /dɪˈɫɪvɝəns, dɪˈɫɪvɹəns/ ]
[ UK /dɪlˈɪvəɹəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. recovery or preservation from loss or danger
    a surgeon's job is the saving of lives
    work is the deliverance of mankind

How To Use deliverance In A Sentence

  • The general theme of the elegies is the sorrow and desolation created by the destruction of Jerusalem [2] in 586 B.C.: the last poem (v.) is a prayer for deliverance from the long continued distress. Introduction to the Old Testament
  • The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  • The contents of the kyack meant _life_ to herself and to Ben, -- deliverance and safety when all seemed lost. The Sky Line of Spruce
  • Texans were more or less thought of as yahoo barbarians somewhere between the Beverly Hillbillies and Deliverance.
  • While I was conducting a deliverance meeting, without my knowing it, an unsaved couple came to the Lord.
  • Stupidity is closer to deliverance than intellect which innovates," is a phrase ascribed to a Mohammedan saint, and do not modern theologians report with enthusiasm, the unlettered condition of Jesus? Cosmic Consciousness
  • Yet this is not all: they are proud still, and therefore they do not seek unto God (Ps.x. 4), or, if they do cry unto him, therefore he does not give answer, for he hears only the desire of the humble (Ps.x. 17) and delivers those by his providence whom he has first by his grace prepared and made fit for deliverance, which we are not if, under humbling afflictions, our hearts remain unhumbled and our pride unmortified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • The opening scene shows them celebrating their sudden deliverance from war.
  • But the full concept of salvation in the New Testament is deliverance from our present sins.
  • The prophecy, probably, contemplates ultimately, besides the affliction and deliverance in Sennacherib's time, the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome, the dispersion of the Jews, their restoration, the destruction of the enemies that besiege the city (Zec 14: 2), and the final glory of Israel (Isa 29: 17-24). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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