Word definition: himself

Etimology


From Middle English hymself, from Old English him selfum. Equivalent to him +‎ -self.

pronoun


himself (the third person singular, masculine, personal pronoun, reflexive form of he, feminine herself, neuter itself, plural themselves, gender-neutral singular himself or themselves or themself)

(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.

(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)

Examples


He injured himself.

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

He was injured himself.

Therefore the Lord himſelfe ſhal giue you a ſigne: […].

The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.

Yet it is that himselfe had been liberally gratified by his Unkle with militarie rewards, before ever he went to warres.

With shame remembers, while himself was one / Of the same herd, himself the same had done.

Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet.

Has himself come down to breakfast yet?

Have you seen himself yet this morning?

Related words


synonyms

hisself

hissen

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