deliverance
Roget category 672
5. Words relating to the voluntary powers› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends
#672.
Deliverance
noun
deliverance,
extrication,
rescue —
reprieve,
reprieval† —
respite —
liberation
etc.
750 —
emancipation —
redemption,
salvation —
riddance —
gaol delivery —
redeemableness†.
verb
deliver,
extricate,
rescue,
save,
emancipate,
redeem,
ransom —
bring off,
bring through —
tirer d'affaire [Fr.],
get the wheel out of the rut,
snatch from the jaws of death,
come to the rescue —
rid —
retrieve
etc.
(restore)
660 —
be rid of,
get rid of.
adjective
saved
etc.
v..
extricable,
redeemable,
rescuable.
interjection
to the rescue!,
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