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Healing   /hˈilɪŋ/   Listen
Healing

noun
1.
The natural process by which the body repairs itself.
adjective
1.
Tending to cure or restore to health.  Synonyms: alterative, curative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic.  "Her gentle healing hand" , "Remedial surgery" , "A sanative environment of mountains and fresh air" , "A therapeutic agent" , "Therapeutic diets"


Heal

verb
(past & past part. healed; pres. part. healing)
1.
Heal or recover.  Synonym: mend.
2.
Get healthy again.
3.
Provide a cure for, make healthy again.  Synonyms: bring around, cure.  "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"



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"Healing" Quotes from Famous Books



... felt of a truth that she would never betray his secret. His thoughts clung to her with confidence. "Are you still unwell?" Sophie had said. The tones of her voice alone had been like the fragrance of healing herbs; in her eye he had felt sympathy and—love. "O Sophie!" sighed he. Both sisters were so ...
— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen
... with the lad, Prince Karl," said the Chancellor, firmly. "In my youth I had some practice as a leech. I am acquainted with the art of healing. I could travel either as a doctor of healing, as a travelling philosopher seeking disputation with the scholars of each country, or, perhaps best of all, in mine own quality of a doctor of law. And in any case this young man might with all safety be my pupil or servant, whichever ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... last night at Gaunt House had proved almost too much for Major Pendennis; and as soon as he could move his weary old body with safety, he transported himself groaning to Buxton, and sought relief in the healing waters of that place. Parliament broke up. Sir Francis Clavering and family left town, and the affairs which we have just mentioned to the reader were not advanced, in the brief interval of a few days or weeks which have occurred between this and the last chapter. ...
— The History of Pendennis, Vol. 2 - His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy • William Makepeace Thackeray
... declaring that she "would 'a' dyed de frock th'oo an' th'oo 'cep'n' it would 'a' swunked it up too much"? And perhaps her sympathetic companions were quite as naive as she, for, as they aided her in these first hasty stitches, they poured upon her wounded spirit the healing oil of full and sympathetic approval, as ...
— Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... renouncing idolatry. Some of them were arrested for destroying idols, among them Fung-Yun-san, but on the way to prison he converted the soldiers of his guard, who set him free and followed him as disciples. Many of the converts were seized with convulsions, some professed to have the gift of healing, and the movement took on the phase of strong religious ...
— Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris


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