faith cure
noun
a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
a cure thus effected.
Origin of faith cure
1First recorded in 1880–85
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How to use faith cure in a sentence
It was a sort of sixteenth-century "faith-cure;" and naturally enough, among such superstitious patients it was very effective.
The Spanish Pioneers | Charles F. LummisNow, such a cure would be called faith cure, or magnetic healing.
Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science | Hudson TuttleThe faith cure rests on the declarations of the Bible, that faith will remove mountains, and redeem the lost.
Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science | Hudson TuttleAs in the various phases of faith cure, the imagination has a powerful effect.
Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 | Charles Augustus FullerThe actual value of faith cure as a therapeutic method has been the subject of much discussion.
Mind and Body | William Walker Atkinson
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