Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 672 (Deliverance)

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#672. Deliverance. -- N. deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve, reprieval[obs]; respite; liberation &c. 750; emancipation; redemption, salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness[obs].

V. 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 &c. (restore) 660; be rid of, get rid of.

Adj. saved &c. v. extricable, redeemable, rescuable.

Int. to the rescue!