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
He was the faith healer they had been waiting for.”
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2023
Staff at the hospital told the local Dawn newspaper that the woman had approached the faith healer after hearing about the practice from a neighbour.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2022
Having posed as a faith healer during his 13 years as a fugitive, he offers to show her how bioenergetic healing works, waving his hands above her head.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020
Boston, of all places in the world, is, perhaps, the happiest hunting-ground for the spiritualist medium, the faith healer, and the mind curer.
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
