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Deliverance The story about the soul, heart, mind and body. Halo 2 0 4 – first person shooter action game. All of which must be totally delivered before a person can live in wholeness.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media.
(dĭ-lĭv′ər-əns, -lĭv′rəns)Deliverance definition, an act or instance of delivering. Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. The screenplay was adapted by James Dickey from his 1970 novel of the same name. Deliverance wouldn’t seem like a film that begs for a re-watch.That’s probably because its two most iconic moments, a banjo session at a truck stop and a man’s rape in the woods, have been.
n.1. The act of delivering or the condition of being delivered.
3. A publicly expressed opinion or judgment, such as the verdict of a jury.
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deliverance
(dɪˈlɪvərəns) n1. a formal pronouncement or expression of opinion
2. rescue from moral corruption or evil; salvation
3. another word for delivery3, delivery4, delivery5
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de•liv•er•ance
(dɪˈlɪv ər əns)n.
2. salvation.
4. a thought or judgment expressed; a formal or authoritative pronouncement.
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Deliverance
Noun | 1. | deliverance - recovery or preservation from loss or danger; 'work is the deliverance of mankind'; 'a surgeon's job is the saving of lives' rescue, saving, delivery recovery, retrieval - the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) lifesaving - saving the lives of drowning persons; 'he took a course in lifesaving' redemption, salvation - (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil reclamation, reformation - rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course; 'the reclamation of delinquent children' salvage - the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire salvage - the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction salvation - saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation; 'the salvation of his party was the president's major concern' search and rescue mission - a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them |
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deliverance
noun(Literary)release, rescue, liberation, salvation, redemption, ransom, emancipationtheir sudden deliverance from war
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
deliverance
nounExtrication from danger or confinement:
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
deliverance
[dɪˈlɪvərəns]n (=Deliverance Cast
liberation) → délivrancef, libérationfafter his deliverance, he .. → après avoir étédélivré, il .., après avoir étélibéré, il ..
after his deliverance from the threat of physical violence → après avoir étédélivréde lamenace de violencephysique
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
deliverance
n (liter) → Befreiungf → (from von), Erlösungf → (from von)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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- 1The action of being rescued or set free.
- ‘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.’
- ‘Commentators on this psalm agree that only such a person can hope to receive an answer to their prayer of deliverance from enemies.’
- ‘Afraid he had not sacrificed in the proscribed manner, he squeezed his eyes shut and called out a prayer to God for deliverance.’
- ‘As you led everyone in a prayer for deliverance from any curse over their lives, I felt a definite sense of release from bondage.’
- ‘Biblically, salvation means deliverance; the question is, ‘Deliverance from what?’’
- ‘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.’
- ‘In Psalm 27, we are treated again to the language of light, salvation, and deliverance from enemies in the form of confession and petition.’
- ‘For centuries, Italians had turned to the Virgin Mary in times of individual or collective trouble to ask for salvation or deliverance.’
- ‘Such structures can be read as dramas of redemption, of deliverance from the chaotic environment of an unreasoning nature.’
- ‘This is a key word, a ‘dramatic metaphor’ which includes deliverance from slavery, and being set free at the payment of a price.’
- ‘Although the person feels free, he often needs much more deliverance.’
- ‘The aim of deliverance must continue to apply methods and paths of salvation.’
- ‘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!’
- ‘Everyone waits for deliverance that never comes.’
- ‘When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance.’
- ‘They were praying for death for deliverance from pathetic existence.’
- ‘After the first diaries, which deal with years of persecution and suffering, one expects this one to be a chronicle of deliverance.’
- ‘From there, still an alcoholic, he travelled to South Africa, still looking for deliverance.’
- ‘We give thanks at this hour that this deliverance, in fact, took place.’
liberation, release, freeing, rescue, delivery, discharge, ransom, emancipationView synonyms - 2A formal or authoritative utterance.
- ‘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.’
- ‘Song thus contains both words and music, but speech performance is also more than just a neutral deliverance of verbal semantics.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Instead it gets bogged down in motions and amendments, addendums and deliverances, overtures and the like.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘It is not as though there is a ‘real’ private voice somewhere inside us which gives us infallible deliverances which are right.’
- ‘What substance this is can be inferred from the deliverances of the active faculty, namely the ideas in my imagination.’
utterance, statement, announcement, pronouncement, declaration, proclamationView synonyms
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Deliverance Meaning
Middle English from Old French delivrance, from the verb delivrer (see deliver).
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