1. (n.) The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.

2. (n.) Act of bringing forth children.

3. (n.) Act of speaking; utterance.

4. (n.) The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.

5. (n.) Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly.

6. (n.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.

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