Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bodily cure effected or supposed to be effected by prayer made with belief in its efficacy for the purpose; the practice of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith alone.
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Examples
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I read nearly every book of importance that had been published on this theme -- including Mrs. Eddy's books, all the standard works on hypnotism, mind-cure, faith-cure, new thought, etc.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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But I fooled the pair of them, and dosed them with their own medicine, which was faith-cure.
Chapter 17 1913
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But I fooled the pair of them, and dosed them with their own medicine, which was faith-cure.
Chapter 17 1911
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The treatment to which they resorted partook of the nature of a faith-cure.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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He had surrounded her with doctors, trained nurses, massage-women, and even faith-cure companions, but they were useless.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Physicians I've felt that way about homeopathy and the faith-cure.
Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899
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It must be remembered that our own medical system has its remote origin in the same mythic conception of disease, and that within two hundred years judicial courts have condemned women to be burned to death for producing sickness by spells and incantations, while even at the present day our faith-cure professors reap their richest harvest among people commonly supposed to belong to the intelligent classes.
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Hope grasps at a straw, and it was quite in keeping with the condition of Martha's mind that she should open her ears and her heart when they told her of the wonderful works of the faith-cure man.
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889
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"I suppose," he said, when this was disposed of, "that Mrs. Frostwinch is too much wrapped up in faith-cure nonsense to take much interest in your holy war against Strathmore."
The Puritans Arlo Bates 1884
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After a couple of days the kahuna drops around to see how his victim is getting on, and generally he finds him in low spirits, with a meagre appetite, because this process is as reliable as its opposite, which is called faith-cure.
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