faith-cure
faith-cure noun: 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.
Noun
faith-cure (countable and uncountable, plural faith-cures)
- 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.
- 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...1889 October, “Christian Science; or, Faith Cure”, in Dental Headlight, volume 10, number 4, page 155
- He had surrounded her with doctors, trained nurses, massage-women, and even faith-cure companions, but they were useless.1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
Forms of faith-cure
| plural | faith-cures |
|---|---|
| alternative form | faithcure |
Questions about faith-cure
- What does faith-cure mean?
- Faith-cure means 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.
- What part of speech is faith-cure?
- Faith-cure is a noun.
- What is the plural of faith-cure?
- The plural of faith-cure is faith-cures.
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