Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Deliverance \De*liv"er*ance\, n. [F. d['e]livrance, fr.
   d['e]livrer.]
   1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint,
      captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the
      deliverance of a captive.

            He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to
            preach deliverance to the captives.   --Luke iv. 18.

            One death or one deliverance we will share.
                                                  --Dryden.

   2. Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] --Shak.

   3. Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] --Shak.

   Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word
         more commonly used.

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

            I do desire deliverance from these officers. --Shak.

   5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or
      decision expressed publicly. [Scot.]

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

Source : WordNet®

deliverance
     n : recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the
         deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving
         of lives" [syn: {rescue}, {delivery}, {saving}]