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faith healer

Noun

Meaning

faith healer (plural faith healers)

One who uses spiritual means (such as prayer or laying on of hands) in an attempt to heal others.

faith-healer (plural faith-healers)

Alternative spelling of faith healer

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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faith-healer

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The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient. Abraham Lincoln

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead. James Randi

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers. Luke Goss

Whenever I play with Gerald Ford, I try to make it a foursome the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer. Bob Hope

; 2009 *17 February: Agha Jee shot and killed in Peshwar, the fourth faith healer killed over several months in Pakistan. Source: Internet

McVie's mother Beatrice E.M. (called Tee) née Reece, claimed to be a medium, psychic, and faith healer. Source: Internet

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