Healand

Alternative forms

• Healand, Healend Christ
• healend

Origin

From Middle English healend, from Old English hǣlend ("Saviour, Christ", literally Healing One, Healer), equivalent to heal + -and. Cognate with Dutch Heiland ("Saviour, Christ"), German Heiland ("Saviour, Redeemer").

Full definition of healand

Noun

1. (rare, dialectal or obsolete) One who heals or saves; a saviour.
• 1867, Maximilian Schele de Vere, Studies in English:... and the Saviour was to them touchingly, as he is to the Germans to this day, the Healand, the " Healing " one.
• 2011, Roy Blount Jr., Alphabetter Juice:The Old English word for Jesus was healend, one who heals, or the Savior.