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himself
English
Alternative forms
- Himself (honorific)
- himselfe (obsolete)
- himselve (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English hymself, from Old English him selfum. Equivalent to him +? -self.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?m?s?lf/, /??ms?lf/
- Rhymes: -?lf
- Hyphenation: him?self
Pronoun
himself (the third person singular, masculine, personal pronoun, reflexive form of he, Feminine herself, neuter (nonhuman) itself, neuter (human) himself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- (emphatic) He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate
- (Ireland, otherwise archaic) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.
- Sir John Denham (1614-1669)
- With shame remembers, while himself was one / Of the same herd, himself the same had done.
- 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films
- Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet.
- Sir John Denham (1614-1669)
- (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
Synonyms
- hisself
- hissen
Translations
See also
Further reading
- himself in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- himself in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Flemish, flemish, mehfils
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ourselves
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /a???s?lvz/, /???s?lvz/
Pronoun
ourselves (first personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)
- (reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
- We should keep this for ourselves.
- (emphatic) We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.
- We did it ourselves.
Synonyms
- usself (obsolete or dialectal)
- weself (Jamaican)
Coordinate terms
- ourself (for the singular "we")
Translations
See also
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