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faith healing

noun

  1. healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
  2. a method employing faith or prayer in the hope of receiving such healing.


faith healing

noun

  1. treatment of a sick person through the supposed power of religious faith


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Derived Forms

  • faith healer, noun

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Other Words From

  • faith healer noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of faith healing1

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

People of Praise grew out of the charismatic Christian movement of the early 1970s, which adopted practices described in the New Testament of the Bible, including speaking in tongues, the use of prophecy and faith healing.

A Catholic charismatic community in India that I researched practiced exorcism as well as faith healing.

Here, as in other districts that we have referred to, the power of faith-healing is a very real thing.

Officers said the preachers had been conducting meetings in rural communities and had preached on the subject of faith healing.

The power of auto-suggestion was evident in the cures of medieval ailments wrought by the methods of faith-healing.

“Faith-healing will hardly suit me, I am afraid,” said Pollock, with his eye on the dark cushion.

Pure homeopathy is little more than a name at present; it is faith-healing without prayer.

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