faith healing
noun
healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
faith healer
-
a word derived from
faith healing.
Example Sentences
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His personas include Dylanesque poet, Elvis-influenced rocker, high-energy bandleader, acoustic folk hero, musical faith healer, Broadway showman and, just in the last few years, country storyteller and soul crooner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
The woman now known as Bushra Bibi was, in fact, a faith healer with a small following who respected her as a spiritual adviser.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024
Combine a helicopter parent, a faith healer and a non-F.D.I.C.-insured bank and you get the idea.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
He was the faith healer they had been waiting for.”
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2023
While Sam lived with them they were all under the influence of a strange sort of faith healer and took what they called "Health Suggestion" treatments.
From Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson
