healer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that heals wounds, cures illness, restores health, or otherwise makes well and whole.
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(in a video game) a category of job classes in a role-playing game, tasked with restoring the health of other player characters in a party, but poorly equipped to either withstand damage from an enemy or deal damage to an enemy.
Healers are essential to any raiding party, but Priest and even Shaman jobs are hard to solo in the early levels.
Etymology
Origin of healer
First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English helere “Savior, medicine”; heal, -er 1
Example Sentences
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But Lawrence’s reputation for thoughtfully centering stories about healers and healing in wells of humor began with “Scrubs,” which aired for eight seasons on NBC before moving to ABC for its ninth.
From Salon
"I was feeling very weak and was scared for my life. When the healer saw me two days later, he said I was lucky to be alive."
From BBC
But the way it tethers its bruised healers to the human condition’s laws of gravity is potent medicine for coping.
From Salon
In Renaissance England, skillful surgeons and herb-dispensing healers competed with charlatan doctors.
Women were not the only nonphysician healers of the Renaissance, and good thing, too.
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