All 5 Uses of
midwife
in
War and Peace
- Mary Bogdanovna was a midwife from the neighboring town, who had been at Bald Hills for the last fortnight.†
Chpt 4
- The midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump white hands with an air of calm importance.†
Chpt 4 *
- "Mary Bogdanovna, I think it's beginning!" said Princess Mary looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm.†
Chpt 4
- Nurse Savishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of times before: how the late princess had given birth to Princess Mary in Kishenev with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a midwife.†
Chpt 4
- A trained midwife was engaged for Bogucharovo at his expense, and a priest was paid to teach reading and writing to the children of the peasants and household serfs.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(midwife) a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth; or to assist in childbirth
or:
someone who helps bring something into existence; or the act of helping to bring something into existence