DELIVERANCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Recovery or preservation from loss or danger

Example:

a surgeon's job is the saving of lives

Synonyms:

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("deliverance" is a kind of...):

recovery; retrieval (the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deliverance"):

lifesaving (saving the lives of drowning persons)

redemption; salvation ((theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil)

reclamation; reformation (rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course)

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)

search and rescue mission (a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them)

Derivation:

deliver (free from harm or evil)