faith healing

Noun

Meaning

care provided through prayer and faith in God

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

faith cure healing imposition alternative medicine babysitting laying on of hands shock therapy complementary medicine occupational therapy oxygen therapy folk medicine holistic medicine natural medicine alternative healing unconventional medicine
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Hypernyms

attention care aid tending

Hyponyms

laying on of hands

Examples

Apostle Suleman will get one thousand US dollars for any proven case of faith healing of a COVID-19 patient under agreed scientific conditions. Source: Internet

At a time when veterinary care was still primitive, others promoted more dubious remedies: gin and ginger, tinctures of arsenic and even a bit of faith healing. Source: Internet

Researchers found that positive belief in faith healing was mainly a characteristic of conservative Christians, most especially those with charismatic experience. Source: Internet

This means that they literally believe that blathering like blatherskites in incomprehensible, unintelligible, meaningless gibberish allows them to talk to God and that faith healing actually can work as a viable alternative to science and medicine. Source: Internet

His mother, he wrote in a New York Times Magazine article, died of an overdose of faith healing. Source: Internet

In "The Incalling", a story of seedy suburban magic which in some ways foreshadows his later novel The Course of the Heart, an editor is haunted by an author's attempts to cure himself of cancer by faith healing. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

faith development faith discipline faith healer faith in oneself faith in ourselves faith in yourself