# Godself
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɡɑdˈsɛlf/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡɒdˈsɛlf/
* Rhymes: -ɛlf

### Pronoun

Godself (reflexive form of God)
* (reflexive pronoun) Non-gendered form of God himself.
** 2016 [2009], Hannah Bacon, What's Right with the Trinity? Conversations in Feminist Theology‎, Routledge:This is so, Barth claims, because reflection on revelation actually leads to the realization that the God who reveals Godself as Godself is in fact the trinitarian God.
* (emphatic) Non-gendered form of God himself.
** 2024, Dirk J. Smit, edited by Sipho Mahokoto, Essays on the Real Church: Collected Essays, volume 8, African Sun Media, page 21:In the songs praising God’s goodness beats the praise for the wondrous promises of God’s kingdom, of the new heaven and the new earth on which justice prevails, of fellowship with God when Godself will wipe away all tears from the eyes, where there will be no affliction any more, no longer any violence and injustice.

#### Usage notes

Used by some authors to avoid assigning a gendered pronoun to God.

#### See also

| | | | personal pronoun | personal pronoun | personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner |
| | | | subjective | objective | reflexive | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner |
| first person | singular | singular | I me (colloquial) | me | myself me mysen | mine | my mine (before vowels, archaic) me |
| first person | plural | plural | we | us | ourselves ourself oursen | ours | our |
| second person | singular | standard, formal | you | you | yourself yoursen | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
| second person | singular | archaic, informal | thou | thee | thyself theeself thysen | thine | thy thine (before vowels) |
| second person | plural | standard | you ye (archaic) | you | yourselves | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
| second person | plural | colloquial | you all y'all you guys | you all y'all you guys | y'allselves | y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed) | y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed) |
| second person | plural | informal / dialectal | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) |
| third person | singular | masculine | he | him | himself hisself (archaic) hissen | his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) | his |
| third person | singular | feminine | she | her | herself hersen | hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) | her |
| third person | singular | neuter | it hit | it hit | itself hitself | its his (archaic) | its his (archaic) hits |
| third person | singular | genderless | they | them | themself, themselves | theirs | their |
| third person | singular | genderless, nonspecific (formal) | one | one | oneself | – | one's |
| third person | plural | plural | they | them hem, 'em | themselves theirsen | theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) | their |