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noun

healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.

a method employing faith or prayer in the hope of receiving such healing.

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Origin of faith healing

First recorded in 1880–85

OTHER WORDS FROM faith healing

faith healer, noun

Words nearby faith healing

faither, faithful, faithfully, faithfulness, faith hate, faith healing, faith, hope, and charity, faithless, faith school, faitour, Faiyum

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How to use faith healing in a sentence

People of Praise grew out of the charismatic Christian movement of the early 1970s, which adopted practices described in the New Testament of the Bible, including speaking in tongues, the use of prophecy and faith healing.
‘People of Praise leaders failed me’: Christian group tied to Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces reckoning over sexual misconduct|Beth Reinhard, Alice Crites|June 11, 2021|Washington Post
A Catholic charismatic community in India that I researched practiced exorcism as well as faith healing.
What Is Charismatic Catholicism?|LGBTQ-Editor|September 29, 2020|No Straight News
Here, as in other districts that we have referred to, the power of faith-healing is a very real thing.
The Cradle of Mankind|W.A. Wigram
Officers said the preachers had been conducting meetings in rural communities and had preached on the subject of faith healing.
The Necessity of Atheism|Dr. D.M. Brooks

The power of auto-suggestion was evident in the cures of medieval ailments wrought by the methods of faith-healing.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery|Robert Means Lawrence
“Faith-healing will hardly suit me, I am afraid,” said Pollock, with his eye on the dark cushion.
The Plattner Story and Others|H. G. Wells
Pure homeopathy is little more than a name at present; it is faith-healing without prayer.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation|Austin O'Malley

British Dictionary definitions for faith healing

faith healing

noun

treatment of a sick person through the supposed power of religious faith

Derived forms of faith healing

faith healer, noun

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Origin of faith healing

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