faith-cure

plural faith-cures · alternative faithcure

1. countableuncountableThe 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.

   He had surrounded her with doctors, trained nurses, massage-women, and even faith-cure companions, but they were useless.

   1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

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   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 descended Christ.

   1889 October, “Christian Science; or, Faith Cure”, in Dental Headlight, volume 10, number 4, page 155

   It is often asked, Why are faith-cures sometimes more speedy than some of the cures wrought through Christian Scientists?

   2014, Mary Baker Eddy, The Spiritual Writings of Mary Baker Eddy

   The healing miracles performed by Jesus are now frequently attributed to the use of the same power as that by which faith-cures are effected at the present time—a power upon which the science of psychology is shedding a new light, and which mental therapeutics will one day place at the disposal of the human race.

   2021, Vivian Phelips, The Churches and Modern Thought