delivrance

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

delivrance (countable and uncountable, plural delivrances)

  1. Obsolete form of deliverance.
    • 1746, Samuel Hardy, The Indispensible[sic] Necessity of Constantly Celebrating the Christian Sacrifice:
      From hence it may, I think, be concluded, that this Bread was eaten in Remembrance of their being fed with Manna, and, consequently, of their Delivrance from the Egyptian Bondage.

Middle French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

delivrer +‎ -ance.

Noun[edit]

delivrance f (plural delivrances)

  1. liberation (act of setting free)

Descendants[edit]

  • French: délivrance