sanative
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He believed primarily in a sanative effluence, and his method seems to have been a combination of passes, suggestion, and a supposed "metallotherapy" or "magneto-therapy"—the celebrated baquet—which no doubt was merely a form of suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
The mind thus becomes "a silent, transforming, sanative energy" of great potency and power.
From The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Trine, Ralph Waldo
"And you don't think two years' prison, two years' slavery, was sanative enough without the denial of his just compensation?"
From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean
Hence the reader will perceive that our aim is to depart from the popular debilitating and life-destroying practice, and approach as near as possible to the sanative.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
Aurora laughed and reinforced her expression of jolly matter-of-factness, looking into his eyes with eyes of sanative fun.
From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
