Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or process of making or becoming whole, sound, or well.
- n. Cure; the means of making whole.
- Curing; curative; restorative; soothing.
- n. A covering. Specifically — The covering of the roof of a building.
Wiktionary
- n. The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves.
- n. An act of healing, as by a faith healer.
- n. The psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems.
- v. present participle of heal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tending to cure or restore to health
- n. the natural process by which the body repairs itself
Examples
“They will unite in her name, and in her name healing will be brought to our world, our children, and our souls.”
“The satirical medical series is written by and stars Rob Corddry as a doctor who wears clown makeup and "blood"-splattered scrubs so he can practice what he calls the "healing power of laughter" at a hospital where the staff is more interested in tending to their overactive libidos than treating patients.”
“For it to be restorative often requires the "friends" part of the organization, what he calls the "healing ethos of community.”
“At one point he told the audience, “Your healing is here,” while unfurling a hand in front of his torso.”
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“But for many, many years, as a Lutheran pastor and writer and theologian, I had worked for what I called the healing of the breech of the 16th century between Rome and the Reformation.”
“These organs of elimination become overcrowded with the rush of morbid matter and the accompanying congestion and irritation cause the acute inflammatory processes and feverish symptoms characterizing the various forms of colds, catarrhs, skin eruptions, diarrheas, boils and other acute forms of elimination, which we call healing crises.”
“Thus the inspired Seer of the North draws a vivid picture of what we call healing crises in their relation to moral regeneration.”
“Some people are what I call healing personalities, people who are just fun to be around,”
“About 30 abortion opponents met at the headquarters of Operation Rescue on East Central for a memorial service and to pray for what they called healing from the shooting death [murder] of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller. ...”
“He will go a long way in 'healing' the world, lexel”
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