Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
he .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pronoun See
here , pron.
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- pronoun neologism
them (singular).Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate withhim andher . - adjective neologism
Belonging to hir,their (singular).Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate withhis andher .
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Examples
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What must I bee St George, first both in hir humour, and hir name; I will not bee made soe much your foole.
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How should I doe otherwayes, for I practized Cleopatria, when shee was in hir captivity, and could they have thought mee worthy to have adorned their Tryumphs, I would have perform'd his gallant Tragidye, and soe have made myselfe glorious for tyme to come.
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Ey, but I meane to folleyfie hir all I can, and lett hir knowe that Garbe, that doth best become hir, is most ill favour'd.
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How should I doe otherwayes, for I practized Cleopatria, when shee was in hir captivity, and could they have thought mee worthy to have adorned their Tryumphs, I would have perform'd his gallant Tragidye, and soe have made myselfe glorious for tyme to come.
The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley Jane Cheyne 1644
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What must I bee St George, first both in hir humour, and hir name; I will not bee made soe much your foole.
The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley Jane Cheyne 1644
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Ey, but I meane to folleyfie hir all I can, and lett hir knowe that Garbe, that doth best become hir, is most ill favour'd.
The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley Jane Cheyne 1644
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As the studied review of history and science shows - and is described in the Theory of Social Meta-Needs - the goal each person's life is to maximize what I (and husband Paul Wakfer) refer to as hir lifetime "happiness", that which each individual seeks to obtain and maintain (values), and likewise avoidance of what s/he does not value.
OpEdNews - Diary: Knowledge and Its Understanding of Value Requires Reasoned Thought 2008
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The other tragedy here is that she had to show up in court today without make-up and in sweats, and her hir was a mess.
Paris in the springtime Terry Nelson 2007
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He being a very faire and affable yong man, easie to kindle affection in a very modest eie: it fortuned, that a Courtezane, one of our before remembred shavers, who termed hir selfe Madame Biancafiore, having heard somewhat concerning his affairs, beganne to dart amorous glances at him.
The Decameron 2004
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Whervpon he first asked Gonorilla the eldest, how well she loued him: who calling hir
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
john commented on the word hir
Gender-neutral pronoun.
October 11, 2007
milosrdenstvi commented on the word hir
Useless when pronounced.
August 25, 2008
plethora commented on the word hir
I pronounce this like I'm speaking German - the same as hear.
August 26, 2008