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Webster 1913 Edition

Yourself

Your-self′

,
p
ron.
;
pl.
Yourselves
.
[
Your
+
self
.]
An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; – used as a subject commonly with you;
as, you
yourself
shall see it
; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case;
as, you have injured
yourself
.
Of which right now ye han
yourselve
heard.
Chaucer.
If
yourselves
are old, make it your cause.
Shakespeare
Why should you be so cruel to
yourself
?
Milton.
The religious movement which you
yourself
, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to last.
J. H. Newman.

Webster 1828 Edition

Yourself

YOURSELF

, pron. Plu. Yourselves. [your and self.]
1.
A word added to you, to express distinction emphatically between you and other persons. This work you must do yourself; or you yourself must do it; that is, you and no other person. Sometimes it is used without you.
Allow obedience, if yourselves are old.
2.
It is used as the reciprocal pronoun. You love only yourself; you have brought this calamity on yourselves; be but yourselves.

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