Him
Honorific alternative letter-case form of him, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
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him personal pronoun, objective case
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
With dative effect or as an indirect object. [from 9th c.]
Following a preposition. [from 9th c.]
With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
(now, rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
Alternative letter-case form of Him
him (plural hims)
(informal) A male person.
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Source: Wiktionary
Him, pron.
Definition: Them. See Hem. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Him, pron. Etym: [AS. him, dat. of he. sq. root183. See He.]
Definition: The objective case of he. See He. Him that is weak in the faith receive. Rom. xiv. 1. Friends who have given him the most sympathy. Thackeray.
Note: In old English his and him were respectively the genitive and dative forms of it as well as of he. This use is now obsolete. Poetically, him is sometimes used with the reflexive sense of himself. I never saw but Humphrey, duke of Gloster, Did bear him like a noble gentleman. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 January 2025
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
