middle vs midst

middle

noun
  • A centre, midpoint. 

  • The part between the beginning and the end. 

  • The middle stump. 

  • The central part of a human body; the waist. 

  • The middle voice. 

adj
  • Pertaining to the middle voice. 

  • Located in the middle; in between. 

  • Central. 

midst

noun
  • A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. 

prep
  • Among, in the middle of; amid. 

How often have the words middle and midst occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )