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

But now, through the facts discovered by hypnotism and other means, the scientists are coming around and admitting that the old women were right, that the people really did get help from faith cure.

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

He certainly cannot explain everything which claims to be of supernatural origin in the faith cure.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew

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)

"Strikes me this afternoon watch is going to be more of a faith cure than a rest cure as the Pilot suggests," grumbled Thorogood.

From The Long Trick by Bartimeus

Medical dissection was prohibited, and the practice of medicine was reduced to that of faith cure.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin