Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- pronoun Yourself. Used as the reflexive or emphatic form of thee or thou.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A pronoun used reflexively for emphasis after, or in place of, thou: as, thou thyself shalt go (that is, thou shalt go and no other).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pronoun An emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with
thou ; ; that is, thou shalt go, and no other. It is sometimes used, especially in the predicate, withoutthou , and in the nominative as well as in the objective case.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- pronoun archaic or literary, informal
yourself (as the object of a verb or preposition or as an intensifier)
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Examples
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Do not then any longer fear to part with thine existence, it will at least put an end to those richly merited torments thou hast inflicted on thyself; _Death, in delivering the earth from an incommodious burthen, will also deliver thee from thy most cruel enemy, thyself_.
The System of Nature, Volume 1 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756
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"Know in thyself and All one self-same soul," says the old Hindu poem "banish the dream that sunders part from whole."
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life M.D. Robert Lanza 2010
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"Know in thyself and All one self-same soul," says the old Hindu poem "banish the dream that sunders part from whole."
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life M.D. Robert Lanza 2010
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"Know in thyself and All one self-same soul," says the old Hindu poem "banish the dream that sunders part from whole."
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life M.D. Robert Lanza 2010
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"Know in thyself and All one self-same soul," says the old Hindu poem "banish the dream that sunders part from whole."
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life M.D. Robert Lanza 2010
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"Know in thyself and All one self-same soul," says the old Hindu poem "banish the dream that sunders part from whole."
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life M.D. Robert Lanza 2010
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"Know in thyself and All one self-same soul," says the old Hindu poem "banish the dream that sunders part from whole."
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life M.D. Robert Lanza 2010
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Then she asked him, “O Moslem! the slaying of Nazarenes is lawful to you folk; what then hast thou to say about being slain thyself?”
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Quoth the King, “O weak o wit, I bade not my nobles deal thus with thee but that we might gather together unto thee wealth galore; for may be thou wilt bethink thee of thy country and family and repine for them and be minded to return to thy mother-land; so shalt thou take from our country muchel of money to maintain thyself withal, what while thou livest in thine own country.”
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Then said the Caliph, “O Ala al-Din, why hast thou absented thyself from the Divan?”
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