Deliverance

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

In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used.