All 10 Uses
midwife
in
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
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- How he had copied the group of letters out on a piece of brown paper; copied, as illiterate people do, every curlicue, arch, and bend in the letters, and presented it to the midwife.†
Chpt 1
- Macon knew otherwise, because he was there and had seen the eyes of the midwife as his mother's legs collapsed.†
Chpt 1
- I tried to get a midwife for her, but the doctor said midwives were dirty.†
Chpt 3
- I tried to get a midwife for her, but the doctor said midwives were dirty.
Chpt 3 *midwives = a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
- I told him a midwife delivered me, and if a midwife was good enough for my mother, a midwife was good enough for his daughter.†
Chpt 3
- I told him a midwife delivered me, and if a midwife was good enough for my mother, a midwife was good enough for his daughter.†
Chpt 3
- I told him a midwife delivered me, and if a midwife was good enough for my mother, a midwife was good enough for his daughter.†
Chpt 3
- When her baby was born, a girl, the two midwives in attendance were so preoccupied with what was going on between her legs they never even noticed her smooth balloon of a stomach.†
Chpt 5midwives = non-doctors who practice the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Bewildered and grieving, they went to the house of the closest colored person they knew: Circe, the midwife who had delivered them both and who was there when their mother died and when Pilate was named.†
Chpt 7
- She worked for the Butlers— rich white folks, you know—but she was a good midwife in those days.†
Chpt 10
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)