guérisseur — meaning in English
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English meaning
- healer noun A person who treats or cures illness, especially through non-conventional or spiritual means.
Senses
guérisseur is used for these senses in English:
- faith healer One who uses spiritual means (such as prayer or laying on of hands) in an attempt to heal others.
- healer One who heals, especially through faith.
- witch doctor A person (often male) who is believed to ward off witchcraft and heal through magical powers; a shaman.
healer — full definition
- noun A person who treats or cures illness, especially through non-conventional or spiritual means.
- noun Anything, such as a medicine, that helps cure an ailment.