Did you possibly mean one of these? her, hit
Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See he.
Wiktionary
- pro. neologism them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
- adj. neologism Belonging to hir, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.
GNU Webster's 1913
- pro. See here, pron.
Examples
“How should I doe otherwayes, for I practized Cleopatria, when shee was in hir captivity, and could they have thought mee worthy to have adorned their Tryumphs, I would have perform'd his gallant Tragidye, and soe have made myselfe glorious for tyme to come.”
The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley
“What must I bee St George, first both in hir humour, and hir name; I will not bee made soe much your foole.”
The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley
“Ey, but I meane to folleyfie hir all I can, and lett hir knowe that Garbe, that doth best become hir, is most ill favour'd.”
The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley
“As the studied review of history and science shows - and is described in the Theory of Social Meta-Needs - the goal each person's life is to maximize what I (and husband Paul Wakfer) refer to as hir lifetime "happiness", that which each individual seeks to obtain and maintain (values), and likewise avoidance of what s/he does not value.”
OpEdNews - Diary: Knowledge and Its Understanding of Value Requires Reasoned Thought
“The other tragedy here is that she had to show up in court today without make-up and in sweats, and her hir was a mess.”
“He being a very faire and affable yong man, easie to kindle affection in a very modest eie: it fortuned, that a Courtezane, one of our before remembred shavers, who termed hir selfe Madame Biancafiore, having heard somewhat concerning his affairs, beganne to dart amorous glances at him.”
“Whervpon he first asked Gonorilla the eldest, how well she loued him: who calling hir”
“The Scotish writers name hir Beatrice, but our writers name hir Editha.”
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
“+ I will call hir: Maide with whome are ye so hastie?”
“This is because only each person hirself (I use "hir" for a gender neutral 3rd person) knows what is in hir own best interest ..”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hir’.
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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Perceived linguistic gaps in English,...
From POSSLQ to "the naughties", a place to list those concepts for which English still appears to have no satisfactorily precise term. Your suggestions are invited!
naughties, birhymagram, posslq, the aughts, the noughties, the oh-ohs, the double-ohs, the twenty hundreds, the two thousands, the preteens, the deccies, the nillies and 17 more...
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brave new world
words for our now
ninjabi, burkini, tigercam, mothership, cyborg, ims, expunge, psychogeography, trans, spectrum, zhe, hir and 2 more...
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danlowlite's Words
xenoglossia, magnified, deicide, hir, sie, manifesto, bernie, semantics, twitch, corpronational, oblivion, uncentering and 11 more...
Tweets
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plethora I pronounce this like I'm speaking German - the same as hear. Aug 26, 2008
milosrdenstvi Useless when pronounced. Aug 25, 2008
john Gender-neutral pronoun. Oct 11, 2007