Crossword-Solution: MIDWIVES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Midwives | pl. | of Midwife |
We have 3 clues for the answer “MIDWIVES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Their work is labor-intensive? | 1 answer |
| Delivery professionals | 2 answers |
| Labor group. | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MIDWIVES (5)
Most of the midwives were dead, especially of such as served the poor; and many, if not all the midwives of note, were fled into the country; so that it was next to impossible for a poor woman that could not pay an immoderate price to get any midwife to come to her—and if they did, those they could get were generally unskilful and ignorant creatures; and the consequence of this was that a most unusual and incredible number of women were reduced to the utmost distress.
Their occupation as midwives made them acquainted with the secrets of many families, which they afterwards turned to dreadful account.
Bartholinus is accredited with the following: Three midwives failing to deliver a woman, she died, and forty-eight hours after death her abdomen swelled to such an extent as to burst her grave-clothes, and a male child, dead, was seen issuing from the vagina.
They answered, and said: "Our unanimous advice is that thou shouldst build a great house, station a guard at the entrance thereof, and make known in the whole of thy realm that all pregnant women shall repair thither together with their midwives, who are to remain with them when they are delivered.
Now let the king summon the Hebrew midwives, that they come hither, and let him command them in accordance with this plan." Job's advice found favor in the eyes of Pharaoh and the Egyptians." They preferred to have the midwives murder the innocents, for they feared the punishment of God if they laid hands upon them themselves.
Quotes with MIDWIVES (3)
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
The archetype of the witch is long overdue for celebration. Daughters, mothers, queens, virgins, wives, et al. derive meaning from their relation to another person. Witches, on the other hand, have power on their own terms. They have agency. They create. They praise. They commune with nature/ Spirit/God/dess/Choose-your-own-semantics, freely, and free of any mediator. But most importantly: they make things happen. The best definition of magic I’ve been able to come up with is…
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2020).