[F.:—L. līberātiōn-em, n. of action f. līberāre to deliver (see LIBERATE v.).] A part, number or fascicule (of a work published by instalments).
1816. Gentl. Mag., LXXXVI. I. 197. The livraison which I hope shortly to lay before the publick.
1824. Advt., in Cowper, Priv. Corr., II. (at end) Napoleon’s Memoirs…. The first three Livraisons, each in two parts…. Editions in French and English.
1882. Walt Whitman, Spec. Days, 7, note. These soil’d and creas’d livraisons, each composed of a sheet or two of paper.
