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faithcure

faithcure is the alternative form 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

Forms of faithcure

pluralfaithcures

Questions about faithcure

What is faithcure the alternative form of?
Faithcure is the alternative form of faith-cure.

Words near faithcure in the dictionary

  1. faith-lifts
  2. faithbased
  3. faithbreach
  4. faithbreaker
  5. faithbreakers
  6. faithcure
  7. faithcures
  8. faithe
  9. faithectomies
  10. faithectomy
  11. faithed

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