faith cure

American  

noun

1. a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.

2. a cure thus effected.

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Etymology

Origin of faith cure

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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faith cure

As in the various phases of faith cure, the imagination has a powerful effect.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus

People in all ages have believed in faith cure under one form or another to the utter amazement of the intelligent physicians who made fun of them and pitied their ignorance.

From To Infidelity and Back by Lutz, Henry F. (Henry Frey)

Here, then, is faith cure in its largest and best sense.

From The Untroubled Mind by Hall, Herbert J. (Herbert James)

When proper study and investigation have been made it will be found that faith cure, not in its present state, but in some future development, will have an immense field of usefulness.

From The Untroubled Mind by Hall, Herbert J. (Herbert James)

The osteologist does this by massage, the real faith cure man by concentrating his magnetism on the patient, the practitioner uses medicine and drugs, each having their own magnetism, etc.

From ABC's of Science by Oliver, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)