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Meaning of watch-birth | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A midwife.

obsolete

Examples

“This Pattern pleas'd thee ſo, th' haſt fram'd by it, Th' eternall Watch-births of thy ſacred Wit: Thy pithy Book of Proverbs richly-grave, Unto the PORCH may rich relation have: For that it gives us Oeconomike Lawes, Rules Politike, and Private civill Sawes; And for (the moſt) thoſe Leſſons generall At Humane matters ayme the moſt of all.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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