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healer

[ hee-ler ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that heals wounds, cures illness, restores health, or otherwise makes well and whole.
faith healer.
(in a video game) a category of job classes in a role-playing game, tasked with restoring the health of other player characters in a party, but poorly equipped to either withstand damage from an enemy or deal damage to an enemy: DD ( def 2 ), tank ( def 4 ).
Healers are essential to any raiding party, but Priest and even Shaman jobs are hard to solo in the early levels.

Origin of healer¹

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English helere “Savior, medicine”; heal, -er ¹

Her grandfather had been a physician and healer who—according to family lore—married a descendant of the Osage or Pawnee tribes.

The president seems increasingly uncomfortable with the role of healer-in-chief.

Yamuna Zake, a long time healer and practitioner, tells me at her quiet West Village yoga studio.

Elected in 2005, Morales was hailed as a people's hero and even as a healer.

His father coined the word “poliatrist”, meaning a healer of the polis or city.

But the defect which they bring to light will not be cured by closing our eyes to it and trusting to time, the sovereign healer.

A former clergyman of this parish appears to have been notable as a healer of bodies as well of souls.

We have already had a glimpse of the need there was, even in taking away human sickness, that the Healer Himself should suffer.

He made a speech in which he begged the sufferers to turn their eyes to the Great Healer, who alone could comfort.

The tone might almost have deceived Mahbub Ali, but it failed entirely with the healer of sick pearls.

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