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ɑrˈsɛlf, aʊər-, ˌaʊ ər-our·self
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ourselfpronoun
The reflexive of the editorial or royal we; myself as used by a writer or speaker who would refer to himself in the nominative case as we. (Normally, the reflexive case of we is ourselves).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Ourself
is used in the regal stile.
To make society
The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself
Till supper-time alone. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.We ourself will follow
In the main battle. William Shakespeare.Not so much as a treaty can be obtained, unless we would denude ourself of all force to defend us. Edward Hyde.
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ourself
The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and natural gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and Middle English.
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foulers
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ourself in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ourself in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of ourself in a Sentence
This is a great responsibility that is on our shoulders, we should do it so as it rid ourselves, this country, of terrorism; not only ourself, but the entire world.
Subjecting ourself to the self imposed discipline regimen is the surest way to increase the quality of our existence.
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
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- में ourselfHindi
- diriIndonesian
- noi stessiItalian
- 我们自己Chinese
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