ourselves first personal plural pronoun (reflexive case of we)
(reflexive pronoun) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
(emphatic) We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.
• usself (obsolete or dialectal)
• ourself (for the singular "we")
Source: Wiktionary
Our*selves", pron.
Definition: ; sing. Ourself (we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case. We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal further then we usually do. Locke. Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand. Dryden.
Note: The form ourself is usec only in the regal or formal style after we or us, denoting a single person. Unless we would denude ourself of all force. Clarendon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 May 2024
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