Deliverance vs Calling - What's the difference?
deliverance | calling |
Act of delivering, the state of being delivered, or something delivered.
Extrication from danger, imprisonment, rescue etc.
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A strong urge to become religious.
A job or occupation.
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As nouns the difference between deliverance and calling
is that deliverance is act of delivering, the state of being delivered, or something delivered while calling is a strong urge to become religious.As a verb calling is
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Alternative forms
* delivraunce (obsolete) * deliveraunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
Synonyms
* deliverycalling
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling , if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}