the act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive.-act of bringing forth children.-act of speaking; utterance.-the state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.-anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly.-any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.