What's the difference between damnation and deliverance?

Damnation


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
  • (n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
  • (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now they pit salvation against damnation, national glory against famines, locusts, boils and immigrant hordes.
  • (2) He had been questioning his own church too, specifically its contention that "all who did not know and love Jesus were condemned to everlasting damnation".
  • (3) Tatchell said the new statement was not enough to call off the protest which will take place outside the Barbican on Thursday before Gergiev conducts the LSO in Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
  • (4) Even now, his schedule remains punishing: his production of Berlioz's Damnation Of Faust has just premiered in Paris, a work centring on Frida Kahlo should surface in Canada later this year, and a collaboration with Peter Gabriel called Zulu Time will arrive at the Roundhouse early next year.
  • (5) Blaaaak” out of my grandmother’s mouth travels a step beyond being a pejorative to having the hair-raising resonance of a word that damns as well as describes damnation itself.
  • (6) Looking back in 1994, Kael was as accurate as ever in pinpointing her own faults as a writer: "reckless excess in both praise and damnation ...
  • (7) The economy must be placated, nourished and revived, they believe, no matter what the cost – for the alternative is doom and damnation for us all.
  • (8) Just as in the 15th and 16th centuries you could sleep with your sister and kill and lie without fear of eternal damnation, today you can live exactly as you please as long as you give your ducats to one of the companies selling indulgences.
  • (9) Nothing the bishops discussed in Rome over the past few weeks will save me and my kind from damnation.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Purves as Mephistopheles and Peter Hoare as Faust in Terry Gilliam’s The Damnation of Faust, for the English National Opera.
  • (11) 75,000 men were arrested during this period for what was referred to as – in words of euphemistic damnation – “gross indecency”.
  • (12) Chilcot’s damnation of the misuse of defence resources before Iraq might as well be wrapping fish and chips.
  • (13) These factors include Demandingness, Awfulizing, I-Can't-Stand-It-Itis, and Self-Damnation.
  • (14) We’ve got no intention of following those radical elements in all the Christian churches, according to the Catholic churches in one or two countries, and going out of business.” The business is shame and damnation.
  • (15) The present, often strident and threatening, damnation of benzodiazepines oversteps the mark and causes avoidable misery to patients whose well-being has become largely and therapeutically dependent on the drug.
  • (16) Perhaps it's a pity, therefore, that all that survived of his preface to the novel was a single, dogmatic sentence: "As long as social damnation exists, through laws and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilisation and muddying a destiny that is divine with human calamity; as long as the three problems of the century - man's debasement through the proletariat, woman's demoralisation through hunger, the wasting of the child through darkness - are not resolved; as long as social suffocation is possible in certain areas; in other words, and to take an even broader view, as long as ignorance and misery exist in this world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless."
  • (17) A culture of eternal damnation has led to a worrying fashion for a sort of career-death penalty, in which the media and tweeters impose a top-up term on released prisoners who they think have got off lightly.
  • (18) But particularly singled out for special damnation : Haringey council.
  • (19) Meeting "the voice and embodiment of the jazz age, its product and its beneficiary, a popular novelist, a movie scenarist, a dweller in the gilded palaces", the reporter found instead, to his distinct hilarity, that Fitzgerald was "forecasting doom, death and damnation to his generation".
  • (20) It is true to say that the glory of man is his capacity for salvation; it is also true to say that his glory is his capacity for damnation.'

Deliverance


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We are uncertain of the structure, deliverability and conditionality of what is proposed by Moelis, but we are willing to engage with them to investigate further.
  • (2) The treatments were equally deliverable, with 76% of patients completing their allocated regimen.
  • (3) Surgical resection of regional lymph nodes and renal vein thrombus, if present, is recommended, since the deliverance of full radiation doses is not likely without exceeding tolerance of vital normal tissues.
  • (4) Compared to Heathrow we are cheaper, quicker, have a significantly lower environmental impact and we are the most deliverable solution."
  • (5) There are some very serious question marks about whether others will ever really happen in practice and whether they are deliverable.
  • (6) However, health care deliverers and users in general are expected to increase their support and consideration for the information provided by the Board, in order to fulfill the purpose for which it was established.
  • (7) "However, there are major political risks over this scenario, reflecting uncertainties over whether the post-2015 spending squeeze is politically deliverable, especially if the 2015 election produces a Labour-led majority or coalition government," he said.
  • (8) The nurse will be the healthcare change agent of the twenty-first century using the expertise developed as the deliverer to the patient while the physician will become the advisor to patients, business, and the community.
  • (9) For him, "a world in which we are no longer burdened by debt, credit, hock, mortgage, HP, might not be a grievous loss but a deliverance … a more modest and more prudent way of living".
  • (10) The provider leadership task must be deliverable – an averagely performing foundation trust or trust has to be able to stay in surplus and carry a reasonable level of risk.
  • (11) What I want is an immediate and urgent ceasefire, but we want it to be based on deliverables for the future."
  • (12) One-hundred nineteen control patients, exposed 789 times to noncarrier health care deliverers, were also negative.
  • (13) Deliverances or exorcisms can often involve physical violence.
  • (14) The in vitro response of P. falciparum to amodiaquine, quinine and quinidine was assessed in Tanga region where chloroquine resistance is established, to determine baseline susceptibility levels which could guide health care deliverers on the suitability of these drugs for the treatment of falciparum malaria in the areas studied.
  • (15) One plausible explanation for the discrepancy between fact and remembrance is that the survivors, who regarded their own deliverance as miraculous, found the chances slim that someone as helpless as a dwarf could escape death.
  • (16) The truth is that Nigeria is a failed state as a deliverer of safety, health and education to its people, but a very successful state for those who own and control or benefit from its increasingly dynamic economy.
  • (17) Other medications might be deliverable via the GI tract in the early postoperative period.
  • (18) As reports of possible bid for child protection contracts make clear, it hopes to be a prime deliverer of many more important, sensitive services.
  • (19) "Exam boards agree with us that, on the face of it, this timetable is deliverable, but of course we will take action if at any time the timetable is at risk," Stacey told Gove in a letter published on Friday (pdf).
  • (20) He said: “I just don’t think it makes sense to say you’re never going to have a single metre of extra concrete anywhere, in any runway anywhere in the United Kingdom...It will need to be discussed again because – how can I put it – I’ve seen the perils of the past of putting something which you know in your heart of hearts is not necessarily deliverable.” But Clegg said he accepted the vote.