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Healer

//ˈhilɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who heals, especially through faith.

    "faith healer"

  2. 2
    a person skilled in a particular type of therapy wordnet
  3. 3
    Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease.

Etymology

From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal; analysed as heal + -er. Cognate with Dutch heler (“healer”), German Heiler (“healer”), Icelandic heilari (“healer”).

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