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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Her (or His) Imperial Majesty

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Examples

  • In a very sweet scene, his newly rekindled love Mockingbird tells him that she believe in HIM, but not his cause, and reminds him that he has a lot to lose.

    Review: Dark Reign - Avengers - The List #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Had I asked him about Dr. Henry Louis Gates he would have been quite familiar with HIM and all aspects of that incident, right down to the 911 call placed by a white woman, who did not mention race.

    Elon James White: Echoes of Gates' Arrest in Brooklyn? 2009

  • The man engaged to bear his box — Tom knew him well: a Dragon man — came stamping up the stairs, and made a roughish bow to Tom (to whom in common times he would have nodded with a grin) as though he were aware of what had happened, and wished him to perceive it made no difference to HIM.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • But, if he did, I hope the boys would fall upon him, and apply the whip to HIM.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • But today, as he was in the purgatory between the cashier and the "public space," about to have the cops called on him (on HIM, the guy who usually CALLS THE SHOTS!), I decided to act like any other New Yorker and proudly ordered my triple soy latté with a large shot of caramel, thank you very much.

    Hippo Gnu Deer! 2004

  • But today, as he was in the purgatory between the cashier and the "public space," about to have the cops called on him (on HIM, the guy who usually CALLS THE SHOTS!), I decided to act like any other New Yorker and proudly ordered my triple soy latté with a large shot of caramel, thank you very much.

    oh, that "stupid feeling" 2004

  • Once Chris let the fuckhead know he was on to him by reversal in tailing HIM did the guy speed away.

    hemopoetic Diary Entry hemopoetic 2002

  • Him+, HIM, my Lord, with an intuition possible only to the soul which accepts Him for its All; +and the power of His Resurrection+, as that

    Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians 1880

  • I was very sorry for him, and as I really cared very little for the half-forgotten escapade of his friend except so far as it seemed to render HIM sensitive, I shook his hand again heartily and began to talk of our old life in the gulch -- avoiding as far as possible any allusion to Lacy Bassett.

    The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte 1869

  • A sudden dreadful conviction came over him that he must never, never let any one know that he had seen his father take up that paper; that he must never admit it, even to HIM.

    A First Family of Tasajara Bret Harte 1869

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