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Meanings of man-midwife in English
Medical professional who practices obstetrics as a health science.
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Examples for "midwife"
Examples for "midwife"
1
The midwife was quite sure he would make good on his threat.
2
The office of midwife was hereditary in the family of the basket-maker.
3
A short time later he stood in front of the midwife's house.
4
She was already 28 weeks gone when she first saw a midwife.
5
And believe me, if the midwife croaks now, it's best for her.
1
And I thought, too, of a certain accoucheuse named Velikova who had been a comely, but reputedly gay, woman.
Usage of man-midwife in English
1
A physician, a surgeon, and man-midwife, generously undertook to attend the sick gratis.
2
Beyond the door, attended by her maid and a man-midwife, Ruth shut her teeth upon her throes.
3
Surely your mother bare you a scoffer and pitiless, Socrates, and not, as you boast, a man-midwife fit for fair youths.
4
But yet forgive me this one thing; for my mother bare me, as you know, a man-midwife, after her own trade, and not a sage.
5
It's more a jumping-off point to discuss the Pouch of Douglas, a vacant space in the female anatomy that 18th-century man-midwife James Douglas "discovered".
Frequent collocations
Man-midwife through the time