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faith-cures

faith-cures is the plural of faith-cure.

Meaning of faith-cure

Noun

faith-cure (countable and uncountable, plural faith-cures)

  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.
    • 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

Questions about faith-cures

What is faith-cures the plural of?
Faith-cures is the plural of faith-cure.

Words near faith-cures in the dictionary

  1. faith supper
  2. faith suppers
  3. faith will move mountains
  4. faith-based
  5. faith-cure
  6. faith-cures
  7. faith-healer
  8. faith-healers
  9. faith-lift
  10. faith-lifts
  11. faithbased

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