different between herself vs perself
herself
English
Alternative forms
- Herself (honorific)
Etymology
From Middle English. Equivalent to her +? -self.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h???s?lf/, /?s?lf/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h??s?lf/, /?s?lf/
- Rhymes: -?lf
- Hyphenation: her?self
Pronoun
herself (the third person singular, feminine, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of she, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
- (emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.
- (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
Translations
See also
Anagrams
- Flesher, flesher
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perself
English
Etymology
per (from person) + self (like himself, herself, etc.)
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?r?self
- Rhymes: -?lf
- Hyphenation: per?self
Pronoun
perself
- (reflexive, rare) Per, themself; gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of per.
- Per injured perself.
- 1996 February 22, "Susan Groppi" (username), "These messages make me so sad...", in alt.adoption, Usenet:
- I can't comment on the original poster's motivations, but I do know that some agencies (mine, for instance) will not release any information until the adoptee is 18, and then the adoptee perself has to request the information.
- 1996 December 6, "Suki L. McDonough" (username), "What's Up?", in soc.women.lesbian-and-bi, Usenet:
- My hit on the comment was that she was saying that a person on a newsgroup could choose *not* to publicly identify as a member of a visually identifiable minority which is subject to oppression, and therefore spend some time not having to have such oppression directed at perself as an individual (although obviously such a person would still be subject to "ist" postings which aim at the oppressed group in general).
- 1997 April 22, "Anthony and Joy Hilbert" (username), "ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet:
- The person who called perself a dom, but then breached a safeword or did something similarly non-consensual.
Synonyms
- themself
Hyponyms
- himself, herself
See also
- other attested gender-neutral pronouns
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