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ourselves |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Myself \My*self"\, pron.; pl {Ourselves}. I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb without emphasis; as I will defend myself. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ourselves \Our*selves"\, pron. ; sing. {Ourself} (?). An emphasized form of the pronoun of the first person plural; -- used as a subject, usually with we also alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case. We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal further then we usually do --Locke. Safe in ourselves while on ourselves we stand --Dryden. Note: The form ourself is usec only in the regal or formal style after we or us denoting a single person. Unless we would denude ourself of all force. --Clarendon.
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