faithcure

F4A1I1T1H4C3U1R1E1

A form of faith-cure — 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.

Scrabble 17
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounfaithcure (countable and uncountable, plural faithcures)

plural faithcures

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of faith-cure.

    Modern medicine practitioners seem to think that Homoeopathy is nothing but a quackery or faithcure system.

    2004, K. R. Swayanandan, S. Swayanandan, Homeopathic Treatment of Worms, page xii
    2 more examples

    In all this uproar of faithcures, and miracles, and shouting prophets, we have heard few illuminating words from the universities.

    1909, William Walker Atkinson, Suggestion and Auto-suggestion (found in 2022, Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson), page 113

    American quackery, eddyism, osteopathy , faithcure, optometry, and a hundred such nonsensicalities, if ludicrous, are still evidences that a large part of the community is at least undeceived.

    1909 March, George M. Gould, “An Appeal for the Sake of Man and of Medicine”, in American Medicine, volume 15, page 126
Cite this entry
APA

faithcure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/faithcure

MLA

“faithcure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/faithcure. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “faithcure,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/faithcure.

Source: faithcure on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.