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Meanings of midwife in English
Medical professional who practices obstetrics as a health science.
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Examples for "man-midwife"
Examples for "man-midwife"
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".
1
And I thought, too, of a certain accoucheuse named Velikova who had been a comely, but reputedly gay, woman.
Usage of midwife in English
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.
6
The midwife's voice brought him back to the present with a jolt.
7
Sarah also works as a bank midwife in the local maternity unit.
8
There's no longer a midwife in Lumsden after the centre was downgraded.
9
It cost me 20s, between the midwife and the two nurses to-day.
10
Grandma was a midwife and doctored all the babies on the place.
11
Some of the white mistresses acted as midwife for the black mothers.
12
The midwife said the child could not be born without medical help.
13
The midwife brought her tablets but did not explain what they were.
14
He took the midwife's left thumb and introduced it into the clamp.
15
I was just going upstairs, when the midwife opened the window noiselessly.
16
Do I need to get a midwife or one of your sisters?
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Midwife across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
Ireland
Less common
United Kingdom
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