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Curative vs Bethesda - What's the difference?

curative | bethesda |

As an adjective curative

is possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.

As a proper noun Bethesda is

a pool in Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.

As a noun Bethesda is

any location whose waters are supposed to have curative properties.

curative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
    • The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the '50s was amazing at the time.

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    * (l) * (l) ----

    bethesda

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (biblical) A pool in Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic) Any location whose waters are supposed to have curative properties.
  • * 1903 , Thomas De Witt Talmage, Richard S Rhodes, Evils of the cities
    • ...those who are afflicted with rheumatic, neuralgic, and splenetic diseases, go, and are cured by the thousands. These Bethesdas are scattered all up and down our country, blessed be God!
  • * 1978 , Garry Wills, Values Americans live by
    • Time was when this Bethesda too was curative, a sweet oasis in a parched and driven city. The day we went we found the fountain had been shut off.