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anti-cure

adj

Etymology

From anti- + cure.

  1. derived from cura
  2. derived from cure — “care, cure, healing, cure of souls”
  3. inherited from cure
  4. formed as anti-cure — “anti- + cure”

Definitions

  1. Opposed to a cure, especially where the condition being cured may be regarded as an…

    Opposed to a cure, especially where the condition being cured may be regarded as an acceptable alternative state of being.

    • This is particularly true in the area of medical technology, where being anti-technology is equated with being anti-health and anti-cure.
    • I think many of the anti-cure people focus too much on the semantics of the word "cure." How about "fix" instead?
    • President Bush pitched his tent on the wrong ground when he set limits on embryo research — he sounded anti-science, anti-cure.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA