faith cure
Americannoun
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a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
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a cure thus effected.
Etymology
Origin of faith cure
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Here, then, is faith cure in its largest and best sense.
From The Untroubled Mind by Hall, Herbert J. (Herbert James)
She says he's some sort of an East Indian priest, and that he's giving her lessons in a new faith cure that she's taking up.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
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)
It is because of this that Christian science, theology, mind cure, faith cure, metaphysics, etc., have a place in the discussions entertained in this volume.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
She studied of forces hypnotic, She believed in theosophy quite, She understood themes prehistoric And said that the faith cure was right.
From The Coo-ee Reciter by Various
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