单词 | deliveration |
释义 | deliverationn. rare. The action of delivering or setting free someone (from or †for confinement, oppression, trouble, etc.); the condition of having been set free; liberation, release. Also: an instance of this.Apparently unattested in the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] alesingOE liverisona1225 deliverancec1300 healtha1325 redemptiona1325 deliveringc1330 savementc1330 salvationc1374 savinga1387 rescousc1390 rescuec1400 winningc1400 rescuingc1405 acquittancec1430 rescours1439 saveage1507 deliveration1509 deliverya1513 riddancea1530 liverance1553 rescousing1605 vindication1613 out-takinga1617 acquittal1619 vindicating1624 deliverancy1641 safety1654 1509 S. Hawes Pastyme of Pleasure (de Worde) xxx. sig. N.iiv Who is fettred in chaynes He thynketh longe after delyueracyon Of his grete wo. 1713 T. Rands Pax in Crumena 118 Take Three of these Pills in a Morning..to force an Operation, by an immediate Evacuation, and you'll possess a perfect Deliveration for all Inordinate Motions of the Mind, as Trepidity, Anger, Melancholy, Mistrust, or the like. 1796 J. Adams Flowers Mod. Hist. (Philadelphia ed.) lxxv. 190 He survived his deliveration but two years. 1897 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 27 Sept. (Last ed.) 5/1 The heroic state of Hermann, the Cherukean prince and leader of the German tribes in the war for their deliveration from Roman oppression. 2003 Times 27 Sept. (Mag.) 35/1 His father was a postman, and ‘he believed the deliveration of working people came from education’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1509 |
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