Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
OURSELVES
Pronoun
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.
Synonyms
• usself (obsolete or dialectal)
Coordinate terms
• 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
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