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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



... but we have a volume abounding in light on Indian history and rich in hereditary refinement of diction and vivacity of perception.... The actual condition of the Indian Empire at the time Lord Dufferin became Viceroy, and the healing influence his personality exercised upon the inflammation produced by many attempts to exploit India for party purposes, constitute some of Lord Dufferin's strongest claims to recognition among the great men who have made the English name renowned ...
— Mr. Murray's List of New and Recent Publications July, 1890 • John Murray
... her mind the little arts Of healing, which she learnt in India, (For 'twas a study valued in those parts Even by those who were in sovereign sway, And yet so easy too, that, like the heart's, 'Twas more inherited than learnt, they say), She cast about, with herbs and balmy juices, To save ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt
... for thus disturbing in broad day a peaceful habitation! Ye call mine host a wizard. Thus much say I on his behalf: I was robbed and wounded a few nights since in your neighbourhood, and in this house alone I found shelter and healing." ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... stealing, Like a pleasant zephyr's breath, Came pure faith, my sore heart healing As I ...
— The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse - Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects • Thomas Cowherd
... Healing must come from a recovery of the norm, of the balance, of the equilibrium that mediaeval philosophy and culture were always seeking. "The meaning of Aquinas is that mediaevalism was always seeking a centre of gravity. The meaning ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward


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