Healing
['hiːlɪŋ] or ['hilɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heal
(a.) Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.
Typist: Melba
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Sanative, curative.
Checker: Melva
Examples
- The die is the same as the porochial seal--the Good Samaritan healing the sick and bruised man. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Then he went healing and teaching through Galilee, and even journeyed to Tyre and Sidon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- More pliable under change than her sister, Laura showed more plainly the progress made by the healing influences of her new life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I see her father, aged and bent, but otherwise restored, and faithful to all men in his healing office, and at peace. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She remembered Gerty's words: I know him--he will help you; and her mind clung to them as a sick person might cling to a healing relic. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- One woman has a gift of healing, another not; one is a musician, and another has no music in her nature? Plato. The Republic.
- She could but lick the wounds, and thus she kept them cleansed, that healing nature might the more quickly do her work. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Nor would you say that medicine is the art of receiving pay because a man takes fees when he is engaged in healing? Plato. The Republic.
- Had I had the means, I would have risked all, have torn her by force from the murderer's den, and trusted to the healing balm of reason and affection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I am weary of the world, tired of this aimless existence, but to thee will I fly to seek solace in thine healing balMs Maurice! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- How I longed for the almost miraculous healing power of the strange salves and lotions of the green Martian women. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- How gladly Gerty would have welcomed the ministry of healing: how willingly have soothed the sufferer back to tolerance of life! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This thy daughter hath practised the art of healing, hath she not? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A passing seraph seemed to have rested beside me, leaned towards my heart, and reposed on its throb a softening, cooling, healing, hallowing wing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is likely to be the means of healing a family feud. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Typist: Marietta