himself
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hymself, from Old English him selfum. Equivalent to him + -self.
Base: him
Affixes: -self
Inflected forms:
form: he
pos: pron
tags: reflexive-of
form: herself
pos: pron
tags: feminine
form: itself
pos: pron
tags: neuter
form: themselves
pos: pron
tags: plural
form: himself
pos: pron
tags: gender-neutral
singular
form: themselves
pos: pron
tags: gender-neutral
singular
form: themself
pos: pron
tags: gender-neutral
singular
form: Himself
pos: pron
tags: alternative
honorific
form: himselfe
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: himselve
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
pos: pron
tags: masculine
personal
pronoun
reflexive
singular
third-person
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.
One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
gloss: He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate
pos: pron
tags: emphatic
masculine
personal
pronoun
singular
third-person
examples: 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The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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.
gloss: The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.
pos: pron
tags: Ireland
masculine
personal
pronoun
singular
third-person
examples: 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.
gloss: 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)
pos: pron
tags: Ireland
masculine
personal
pronoun
singular
third-person
examples: Has himself come down to breakfast yet?
Have you seen himself yet this morning?
Synonyms: hisself
hissen
Related words: Ime
me
myselfmemysen
mine
mymineme
we
us
ourselvesourselfoursen
oursourn
our
you
yourselfyoursen
yoursyourn
your
thou
thee
thyselftheeselfthysen
thine
thythine
youye
yourselves
you ally'all you guys yous
y'allselves
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
he
him
himselfhisselfhissen
hishisn
his
she
her
herselfhersen
hershern
ithit
itselfhitself
itshis
itshishits
they
them
themself
themselves
theirs
their
one
oneself
–
one's
themhem
'em
themselvestheirsen
theirstheirn
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
Derived words: every man for himself
give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself
he who digs a pit for others falls in himself
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