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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.
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)
- (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.
- (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.
See also
English personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Type | Subject | Objective | Reflexive | Possessive adjective | Possessive pronoun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | I | me | myself | my, mine (archaic) |
mine |
| Second | — | you | you | yourself | your | yours, yourn (obsolete outside dialects) |
|
| Archaic | thou | thee | thyself, theeself |
thy, thine |
thine | ||
| Third | Masculine | he | him | himself, hisself (archaic) |
his | his, hisn (obsolete outside dialects) |
|
| Feminine | she | her | herself | her | hers, hern (obsolete outside dialects) |
||
| Neuter | it | itself | its | its | |||
| Indefinite | one | oneself | one's | — | |||
| Plural | First | — | we | us | ourselves | our | ours, ourn (obsolete outside dialects) |
| Second | — | you, ye (archaic) |
you | yourselves | your | yours, yourn (obsolete outside dialects) |
|
| Third | — | they | them | themselves | their | theirs, theirn (obsolete outside dialects) |
|
Translations
reflexive: us
emphatic: we