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    Midwife |ˈmidˌwīf|
    noun ( pl. -wives )
    a person (typically a woman) trained to assist women in childbirth.
    • figurative a person or thing that helps to bring something into being or assists its development : He survived to be one of the midwives of the Reformation.
    Verb [ trans. ]
    assist (a woman) during childbirth.
    • figurative bring into being : Revolutions midwifed by new technologies of communication.
    DERIVATIVES
    midwifery |midˈwīf(ə)rē; -ˈwīf(ə)rē| noun
    ORIGIN Middle English : Probably from the obsolete preposition mid [with] + wife (in the archaic sense [woman] ), expressing the sense [a woman who is with (the mother).]
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