Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises the faith-cure.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
faith healer .
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Examples
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Something went awry though, 'cause the whole family stopped traveling the faith-healer circuit, and converted to Catholicism, the old-fashioned kind.
Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011
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Something went awry though, 'cause the whole family stopped traveling the faith-healer circuit, and converted to Catholicism, the old-fashioned kind.
Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011
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Something went awry though, 'cause the whole family stopped traveling the faith-healer circuit, and converted to Catholicism, the old-fashioned kind.
Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011
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Recovery and mitigation of the effects of future disasters are not a short term project for a "charity-du-jour" or an opportunistic faith-healer re-directing his fund raising acumen, but require a commitment by competent groups both inside a disaster-struck country and from the wider world.
Richard Walden: 2012 Dreams vs. Reality Richard Walden 2011
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Something went awry though, 'cause the whole family stopped traveling the faith-healer circuit, and converted to Catholicism, the old-fashioned kind.
Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011
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Whereas if we do say it, we lie – because people who know better than to think that some charismatic faith-healer from two centuries ago is his or her “lord” are forced to say it anyway.
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Something went awry though, 'cause the whole family stopped traveling the faith-healer circuit, and converted to Catholicism, the old-fashioned kind.
Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011
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Something went awry though, 'cause the whole family stopped traveling the faith-healer circuit, and converted to Catholicism, the old-fashioned kind.
Susie Bright: Why Lying About Monogamy Matters -- Ross Douthat's Happy Ending Susie Bright 2011
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He's Steve Martin's faith-healer character in Leap of Faith, bilking yokels beyond the hundredth meridian for profit, with Will Bunch and others endeavoring to be the Liam Neeson sheriff, exposing the painted-on Jesus eyes and the fake tears of blood.
Bob Cesca: Glenn Beck the Faith-Healer Continues to Scam His Followers 2010
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Saturday's event was a slick, well-produced PR stunt disguised as a disjointed Christian revival torn from the Benny Hinn faith-healer playbook -- orchestrated to emotionally and spiritually manipulate predominantly angry, naïve, paranoid white people -- the frightened masses who want "their country" back.
Bob Cesca: Glenn Beck the Faith-Healer Continues to Scam His Followers 2010
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