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Definition of Midwifing
1. midwife [v] - See also: midwife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Midwifing
Literary usage of Midwifing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century.: Consisting by John Nichols (1817)
"Perhaps in the office of Diana when her Temple was on fire, midwifing to some
Minerva of the brain, which is to inform an immortal epigram at the next ..."
2. Illustrations of the Literary History of the 18th Century: Consisting of edited by J. B. Nichols (1817)
"Perhaps in the office of Diana when her Temple was on fire, midwifing to some
Minerva of the brain, which is to inform an immortal epigram at the next ..."
3. Annals of Westminster School by John Sargeaunt (1898)
"Perhaps in the office of Diana when her temple was a-burning, gone a-midwifing
to some Minerva of the brain, which is to make its first bodily appearance in ..."
4. Annals of Westminster School by John Sargeaunt (1898)
"Perhaps in the office of Diana when her temple was a-burning, gone a-midwifing
to some Minerva of the brain, which is to make its first bodily appearance in ..."
5. History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1889)
"Truly," he writes, after saying that truth and reason were the old licensers,"
my spirit could never go forth with any other way of licensing, or midwifing ..."
6. History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1901)
"Truly," he writes, after saying that truth and reason were the old licensers, "my
spirit could never go forth with any other way of licensing, or midwifing ..."
7. Cases Argued and Decreed in the High Court of Chancery [1660-1697]. by Great Britain Court of Chancery (1828)
"My part herein has been little more than midwifing into the world another's orphan
issue ; and I was glad of finding this occasion publicly to profess ..."
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