Both Uses
midwife
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
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- I appeal to you as a man ennobled by education...Then these midwives, too, have become extraordinarily numerous.†
Chpt 6.8 *midwives = non-doctors who practice the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Midwives is my name for them.†
Chpt 6.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(midwife) a trained (usually non-doctor) professional who assists women in childbirth; or more broadly, a person who helps bring something new into existence or helps guide it into being
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)