ethical dative

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Examples
Knock me on this door. Get you home! Hie thee hence. Get thee behind me, Satan! I'll rhyme you so eight years together," —Shakespeare, As You Like It, 3.2 Get thee to a nunnery." —Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.1 Knock me at this gate. —Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, 1.2

ethical dative (uncountable)

(grammar) a form of the dative case applied to pronouns; used (in Latin and some other languages, but rare in English) to show a certain interest felt by the person indicated.