divine healing
Americannoun
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healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
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a method employing prayer or faith in the hope of receiving such healing.
Example Sentences
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This meant while visitors were residing at Scoan they would not become unwell and would believe in the divine healing powers of their pastor.
From BBC
He also claimed divine healing powers, for which he also charged.
From New York Times
In the lively tent revivals of the 20th-century South, Pentecostals prayed in tongues and said they experienced divine healing.
From New York Times
Their graves — earthen mounds and crypts, marked by flags and colorful scarves stretched out on bamboo poles — have become shrines, a place of pilgrimage for those seeking divine healing.
From Los Angeles Times
On his Blue Note Records debut, the South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini and his band are doing serious work, drawing on his history in the Zulu tradition of ubungoma, or divine healing.
From New York Times
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