faith healing
2
7.5
- noun
- /feɪθ ˈhiːlɪŋ/
:
sanación por fe
- She shared her experience with faith healing and how it changed her life for the better.
Examples
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Therapeutic touch (which is a lot like reiki) is very similar in its close resemblance to faith healing.
Blog text (26) -
In this small window, there was room for a kind of faith healing—a kind of healthy-minded religion.
Academic text (2006) -
For me, this came up recently in a conversation with a Christian Scientist about faith healing.
Academic text (1992) -
Pocket handbooks for faith healing are printed and sold from Bosnia-Herzegovina to Indonesia.
Academic text (2008) -
Derren Brown: Miracles for Sale is a feature-length programme about the controversial practice of faith healing.
Blog text (16) -
Affiliation with a Spiritualist church perhaps provided a modicum of protection against criminalization, as faith healing was considered part of a religious identity and creed.
Academic text (2007) -
In 1974, federal regulators cut a break for Christian Scientists—who practice faith healing—and began requiring states to exempt church members from abuse and neglect charges for withholding medical treatment from their children.
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Many people turn to faith healing when they feel that doctors cannot help them.
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During the service, the pastor offered faith healing to those suffering from chronic illnesses.
Synonyms
A way of healing by prayer and strong belief instead of medical treatment
Antonyms
How Medical
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'faith' (trust/belief) with 'healing' (recovery): a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this refers to recovery brought about by faith or prayer. This compositional structure (cause/modifier + result) is cross-linguistically common, so the phrase is predictable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Faith healing comes from church and other religious services where people used faith, strong trust, and prayer to try to make the sick well, a kind of healing. The image of people laying hands on someone and praying helps you see why the phrase means 'curing by prayer or spiritual help' instead of help from doctors.