midwive

present singular third person midwives · participle present midwiving · participle past midwived · past midwived

1. alternativeAlternative form of midwife (verb).

   He had midwived Inkatha and drafted most of the ANC's policy concerning it, and now at the meeting, he – rather than others who were senior to him – played the key role as Tambo's second.

   2013, Mark Gevisser, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred

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   “Midwiving the relationship” is a descriptive term covering a variety of sensitive and often subtle techniques, interventions, and other actions and stances taken by the therapist in order to help the marital partners attempt the following: […]

   1996, William C. Nichols, Treating People in Families, page 155

   Despite Richard's efforts to midwive his own narrative of legitimacy, the source of this legendary one cannot be controlled because it has moved from the mouths of nurses, midwives and gossips into the public domain.

   2017, Caroline Bicks, Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England, page 123