healer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that heals wounds, cures illness, restores health, or otherwise makes well and whole.
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(in a video game) a category of job classes in a role-playing game, tasked with restoring the health of other player characters in a party, but poorly equipped to either withstand damage from an enemy or deal damage to an enemy.
Healers are essential to any raiding party, but Priest and even Shaman jobs are hard to solo in the early levels.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of healer
First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English helere “Savior, medicine”; see origin at heal, -er 1
Example Sentences
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Faith Healer An itinerant Irish miracle worker plies his trade in Brian Friel’s comedic fable.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2019
Second place receives a tin of 15 Jesus Bandages, perfectly functional bandaids adorned with Renaissance-style likenesses of the Healer.
From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2019
Stephen Dillane won the best actor prize for Faith Healer at the Donmar Warehouse and Billie Piper was named best actress for her role in Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma at the Young Vic.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2017
There, take your pick from an intimate revival of Brian Friel's great play, Faith Healer, at BOV or Richard II, the first play in the annual Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory season.
From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2011
“And yet she was never taken to St. Mungo’s and no Healer was ever summoned to see her!”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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