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
She said she had approached Lord Ahmed because she thought he could help her get the Metropolitan Police to investigate a faith healer who she believed was exploiting women.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2020
Nikolai’s wife, Tsarina Alexandra, called upon the services of a wandering, illiterate monk and faith healer named Grigorii Rasputin.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
If you are thinking of setting up as a faith healer, the sooner we know it the better.
From The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
