man-midwife
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An accoucheur; a male midwife
Example Sentences
- "1775, Laurence Sterne, The Koran, Chapter XXXVII: The Man-Midwife, The Works of Laurence Sterne, page 75, She was daughter to a man-midwife; — and all that has been urged upon the former caſe, is equally referable to this one also."
- "1835 May 30, Evidence of Mr, Guthrie before the Parliamentary Medical Committee, The Lancet for 1834-35, Volume 2, page 287, It is the same with the man-midwife ; he has no time to devote to surgery ; if he has time, he has no means of improving his knowledge in it."
- "Thus, the answer to the old question of whether man-midwives or midwives were the better birth attendants is not simple. Some midwives were indeed dirty, ignorant, and dangerous; some man-midwives saved lives with their forceps; and some births were doomed to disaster."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
man-midwifery