The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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            He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to
            preach deliverance to the captives.   --Luke iv. 18.
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            One death or one deliverance we will share.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] --Shak.
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   3. Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] --Shak.
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   Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word
         more commonly used.
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   4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.
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            I do desire deliverance from these officers. --Shak.
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   5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or
      decision expressed publicly. [Scot.]
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   6. (Metaph.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested
      or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical
      datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

deliverance
    n 1: recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the
         deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of
         lives" [syn: rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving]