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   Mid·wife

   /ˈmidˌwīf/

   

   noun

   • 1. a person (typically a woman) trained to assist women in childbirth.
   • ▪ 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

   • 1. assist (a woman) during childbirth: "these women midwifed her"
   • ▪ bring into being: "revolutions midwifed by new technologies of communication"

   Word 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’).

   Scrabble Points: 16

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