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deliveraunce

deliveraunce is the obsolete form of deliverance.

Meaning of deliverance

Noun

deliverance (countable and uncountable, plural deliverances)

  1. The act of setting free or extricating from danger, imprisonment, bondage, evil, etc.
    • Now, another fella told me he had a sister who looked just fine
      Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance
      To a cat named Frankenstein.1963, Sam Cooke, “Another Saturday Night”, in Ain't That Good News
  2. The act of delivering or conveying something.
    • They put the act upon the statute-book. But—by a strange deliverance of affairs—none of these objects were accomplished.1892 June, Appleton Morgan, “Wanted: A Railway Court of Last Resort”, in Popular Science Monthly
    Synonyms:
    delivery
  3. Delivery in childbirth.

Questions about deliveraunce

What is deliveraunce the obsolete form of?
Deliveraunce is the obsolete form of deliverance.

Words near deliveraunce in the dictionary

  1. deliverability
  2. deliverable
  3. deliverables
  4. deliverance
  5. deliverances
  6. deliveraunce
  7. delivered
  8. Delivered At Frontier
  9. Delivered At Place
  10. Delivered Duty Paid
  11. Delivered Duty Unpaid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deliveraunce (page history and authors); deliverance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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