deliverance

See: absolution, alienation, catharsis, conveyance, delivery, demise, devolution, discharge, disposition, emancipation, freedom, help, holding, liberation, liberty, mainstay, parole, pronouncement, ransom, redemption, release, relief, reprieve, resolution, respite, salvage, transmittal

DELIVERANCE, Practice. A term used by the clerk in court to every prisoner who is arraigned and pleads not guilty to whom he wishes a good deliverance. In modern practice this is seldom used.