himself
See also: Himself
English
Pronunciation
Pronoun
himself (the third person singular, masculine, personal pronoun, reflexive form of he, Feminine herself, neuter (nonhuman) itself, neuter (human) himself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- He injured himself.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
- (emphatic) He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate
- He was injured himself.
- Bible, Isaiah vii. 14
- The Lord himself shall give you a sign.
- 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
- The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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.
- (Ireland, otherwise archaic) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.
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- Sir John Denham (1614-1669)
- With shame remembers, while himself was one / Of the same herd, himself the same had done.
- 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films
- Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet.
- (Ireland) 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)
- Has himself come down to breakfast yet?
- Have you seen himself yet this morning?
Synonyms
Translations
(reflexive) male person as the previously mentioned object
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(emphatic, exclusive) he
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See also
English personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
Further reading
- “himself”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “himself”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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