Both Uses of
midwife
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- 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
Definition:
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
or:
someone who helps bring something into existence; or the act of helping to bring something into existence