Deliverance is being rescued from danger or evil. Pray for deliverance, deliverance from evil, a sense of deliverance.
It is religious and literary in feel — deliver us from evil is from the Lord's Prayer, and that is where most people meet the word. It implies rescue by an outside power rather than by your own effort. In law, deliverance is a formal pronouncement in some Scottish procedure. Note deliver; and that the Latin means to set free.
1noundeliveranceBeing rescued from danger or evil.
“The trapped miners prayed for deliverance as the rescuers dug towards them.”
deliverance is a rescue.
Old French delivrance comes from delivrer, from Latin de plus liberare, to set free. Liberty, liberal and deliver come from the same freeing.
Old French
deliverance
English, today
deliverance
From Old French deliverance (French délivrance), equivalent to deliver + -ance.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA