midwife

Speech parts

1. midwife - Noun

2. midwife - Verb

Meaning

A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.

To assist in childbirth.

To perform the office of midwife.

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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. Stephen Spender

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. Johannes Kepler

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war. Jeane Kirkpatrick

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. Eric Hoffer

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin. Norman Lamm

The midwife should have cut his throat rather than his navel. Hungarian Proverb

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