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- pronoun
own self (emphatic usage)
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Examples
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Obviously you didn't have enough respect for your ownself, why should you expect others to respect you.
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We will have had enough stocks of oil from ownself and friendly sources to butt off any idiotic blockage along persian sea.
Iranian leader: Obama administration 'wicked,' 'untrustworthy' 2010
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When children are concerned, there is more to think about than one's ownself.
Elizabeth Edwards: I expect a paternity test on Hunter's child 2009
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"Chavez no ira!" which being translated is "Chavez will not go!", which is what Chavez his ownself told his supporters at recent rally in the capital:
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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"Chavez no ira!" which being translated is "Chavez will not go!", which is what Chavez his ownself told his supporters at recent rally in the capital:
The other shoe drops 2008
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The first black man getting ready to make history and his pastor rather save his ownself rather than turn the other cheek!!
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Barack Obama did not "throw Jeremiah Wright under the bus", Jeremiah Wright threw his ownself under the bus.
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As a member of the LGBTQI community my ownself, it is not usually my expectation that when someone says "I'm cancelling the LGBTQI anthology because it might upset people" the "people" in question are the LGBTQI people.
The Nice Guy Defense jimhines 2010
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She got her ownself into debt she can get herself out of it.
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LANSDALE, which will be attended by none other than Joe, his ownself.
Taking in scary flicks with Joe R. Lansdale | Missions Unknown 2010
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