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Webster 1913 Edition


Ourselves

Our-selves′

,
p
ron.
;
sing.
Ourself
([GREEK]).
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.
☞ The form ourself is used only in the regal or formal style after we or us, denoting a single person.
Unless we would denude
ourself
of all force.
Clarendon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ourselves

OURSELVES

,
plu.
of ourself. We or us, not others; added to we, by way of emphasis or opposition.
We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal farther than we usually do.
Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand.

Definition 2024


ourselves

ourselves

English

Pronoun

ourselves (second personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.

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