deliverance

Other forms of deliverance

plural

deliverances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deliverance

What does deliverance mean?

deliverance means "recovery or preservation from loss or danger".

How many syllables are in deliverance?

deliverance has 4 syllables: de-liv-e-rance. The stress falls on "liv". In IPA it is /dɪˈlɪvɚəns/.

What is another word for deliverance?

Close synonyms include rescue, delivery, saving. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deliverance a common word?

deliverance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.