Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- pronoun That one identical with me.
- pronoun Used reflexively as the direct or indirect object of a verb or as the object of a preposition.
- pronoun Used for emphasis.
- pronoun Used in an absolute construction.
- pronoun My normal or healthy condition or state.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An emphatic or reflexive form of the first personal pronoun I or me, either nominative or (as originally) objective.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pronoun I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I
myself will do it; I have done itmyself ; -- used also instead ofme , as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun that being which is
oneself
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But I take myself to museums, and buy myself flowers, and gucci handbags and pray that someday I grow up to make ~myself~ proud.
wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007
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At the moment, I keep finding myself talking on the phone with this beautiful boy and I censor myself me?!?!
ugotsoul Diary Entry ugotsoul 2003
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Things I have never thought before are being presented to myself through myself .
lethalpickle Diary Entry lethalpickle 2001
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But it does mean that when I can no longer protect my own interests, when my affairs depend upon others far more than on myself -- a condition in which we all occasionally find ourselves -- I am not to _fret myself_, not to churn my spirit into nameless fears.
The Conquest of Fear Basil King 1893
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I have been selling myself -- my body, my face, my eyes, _myself, _ a little at a time, a little to each of them.
The Law of the Land Emerson Hough 1890
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I have got, I tell you, to look after _myself_, to plan my life for myself!
The Case of Richard Meynell Humphry Ward 1885
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Henceforward alone and cruelly distrustful of myself, I then took up sides — not without anger — _against myself_ and _for_ all that which hurt me and fell hard upon me; and thus I found the road to that courageous pessimism which is the opposite of all idealistic falsehood, and which, as it seems to me, is also the road to _me_ — _to my mission_.
The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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Yes, it is all very well for me to reason with myself, _to stiffen myself_, so to say; but I cannot remain at home, because I know he is there.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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To say now that I never can forget; that I feel myself bound to you as one human being cannot be more bound to another; -- and that you are more to me at this moment than all the rest of the world; is only to say in new words that it would be a wrong against _myself_, to seem to risk your happiness and abuse your generosity.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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After the court had heard the evidence of myself and Mr. Davis, Mr. Jekyl made a most eloquent appeal to the jury, a _common not_ a SPECIAL jury: he called some witnesses to their character, but no one appearing, _I offered myself_ to give three of them, who had been my father's servants, a character for sobriety and industry, with which the court and counsel appeared much pleased.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 Henry Hunt 1804
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