Deliverable
(De*liv"er*a*ble) a. Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.
Hale.
Deliverance
(De*liv"er*ance) n. [F. délivrance, fr. délivrer.]
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.
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.
Deliverer
(De*liv"er*er) n.
1. One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.
2. One who relates or communicates.
Deliveress
(De*liv"er*ess) n. A female deliverer. [R.] Evelyn.
Deliverly
(De*liv"er*ly), adv. Actively; quickly; nimbly. [Obs.]
Swim with your bodies,
And carry it sweetly and deliverly.
Beau. & Fl. Deliverness
(De*liv"er*ness), n. Nimbleness; agility. [Obs.]
Delivery
(De*liv"er*y), n.; pl. Deliveries
1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his
dungeon.
2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as,
the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.
3. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.
4. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
Neater limbs and freer delivery.
Sir H. Wotton. 6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
