faith healing
healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
a method employing faith or prayer in the hope of receiving such healing.
Origin of faith healing
1Other words from faith healing
- faith healer, noun
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How to use faith healing in a sentence
Here, as in other districts that we have referred to, the power of faith-healing is a very real thing.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. WigramOfficers said the preachers had been conducting meetings in rural communities and had preached on the subject of faith healing.
The Necessity of Atheism | Dr. D.M. BrooksThe power of auto-suggestion was evident in the cures of medieval ailments wrought by the methods of faith-healing.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery | Robert Means Lawrence“Faith-healing will hardly suit me, I am afraid,” said Pollock, with his eye on the dark cushion.
The Plattner Story and Others | H. G. WellsPure homeopathy is little more than a name at present; it is faith-healing without prayer.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation | Austin O'Malley
British Dictionary definitions for faith healing
treatment of a sick person through the supposed power of religious faith
Derived forms of faith healing
- faith healer, noun
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