Faith-cure
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act or process of curing disease by calling on the faith and expectations of the patient, without the use of medication or physical forms of therapy. countable, uncountable
"Her earnestness led from one christiant work to another, and drawn onward in this way, in two years she had “passed through,” (as school-children would term it) sanctification and faith-cure, left her husband and children, and set herself up to a small circle of followers who worshipped her as the descended Christ."
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More examples"Her earnestness led from one christiant work to another, and drawn onward in this way, in two years she had “passed through,” (as school-children would term it) sanctification and faith-cure, left her husband and children, and set herself up to a small circle of followers who worshipped her as the descended Christ."
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