healer

Etymology

From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal; analysed as heal + -er. Cognate with Dutch heler (“healer”), German Heiler (“healer”), Icelandic heilari (“healer”).

noun

  1. One who heals, especially through faith.
  2. Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease.

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