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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. pro. That one identical with me.
  2. pro. Used reflexively as the direct or indirect object of a verb or as the object of a preposition: I bought myself a new car.
  3. pro. Used for emphasis: I myself was certain of the facts.
  4. pro. Used in an absolute construction: In office myself, I helped her get a job.
  5. pro. My normal or healthy condition or state: I'm feeling myself again.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. An emphatic or reflexive form of first personal pronoun I or me, either nominative or (as originally) objective. In the nominative it is always used for emphasis, in apposition with 1 or alone; in the objective it is either reflexive or emphatic, being, when emphatic, usually in apposition with me. Compare himself, herself, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. that being which is oneself

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. pro. I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis.

Etymologies

  1. From me (pronoun) + self (pronoun). Later partly reinterpreted as my + self (noun). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English mi-self, from Old English mē selfum, mē selfne : mē, me; see me-1 in Indo-European roots + selfum, selfne, dative and accusative of self, self; see self. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “But I take myself to museums, and buy myself flowers, and gucci handbags and pray that someday I grow up to make ~myself~ proud.”

    wendchymes Diary Entry

  • “At the moment, I keep finding myself talking on the phone with this beautiful boy… and I censor myself… me?!?!”

    ugotsoul Diary Entry

  • “Things I have never thought before are being presented to myself through myself….”

    lethalpickle Diary Entry

  • “But it does mean that when I can no longer protect my own interests, when my affairs depend upon others far more than on myself -- a condition in which we all occasionally find ourselves -- I am not to _fret myself_, not to churn my spirit into nameless fears.”

    The Conquest of Fear

  • “I have been selling myself -- my body, my face, my eyes, _myself, _ a little at a time, a little to each of them.”

    The Law of the Land

  • “I have got, I tell you, to look after _myself_, to plan my life for myself!”

    The Case of Richard Meynell

  • “Henceforward alone and cruelly distrustful of myself, I then took up sides — not without anger — _against myself_ and _for_ all that which hurt me and fell hard upon me; and thus I found the road to that courageous pessimism which is the opposite of all idealistic falsehood, and which, as it seems to me, is also the road to _me_ — _to my mission_.”

    The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.

  • “Yes, it is all very well for me to reason with myself, _to stiffen myself_, so to say; but I cannot remain at home, because I know he is there.”

    The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories

  • “To say now that I never can forget; that I feel myself bound to you as one human being cannot be more bound to another; -- and that you are more to me at this moment than all the rest of the world; is only to say in new words that it would be a wrong against _myself_, to seem to risk your happiness and abuse your generosity.”

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846

  • “After the court had heard the evidence of myself and Mr. Davis, Mr. Jekyl made a most eloquent appeal to the jury, a _common not_ a SPECIAL jury: he called some witnesses to their character, but no one appearing, _I offered myself_ to give three of them, who had been my father's servants, a character for sobriety and industry, with which the court and counsel appeared much pleased.”

    Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1

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  1. whom
  2. you
  3. these
  4. sing
  5. sleep
  6. sorrow
  7. thyself
  8. thee
  9. yourself
  1. what
  2. us
  3. his
  4. know
  5. fish
  6. himself
  7. trust
  8. understand
  9. reference
  1. loving
  2. itself
  3. another
  4. proof
  5. themselves
  6. gris-gris
  7. early
  8. shut
  9. china
  1. handfull
  2. there
  3. book learning
  4. strike
  5. neither
  6. Jesus
  7. dare
  8. age
  9. praed
  1. derived?
  2. greater
  3. hold
  4. ever
  5. rule
  6. atque
  7. journal
  8. fine
  9. pretty
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  2. that

rhymes (14)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Himself
  2. delph
  1. elf
  2. herself
  1. himself
  2. hisself
  1. itself
  2. oneself
  1. ourself
  2. self
  1. shelf
  2. theirself
  1. themself
  2. yourself

reverse dictionary (41)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. ourself
  2. myselven
  3. ourselves
  4. reflexive
  5. yourself
  6. yourselves
  7. himself
  8. myself
  1. me
  2. eject
  3. yours
  4. endue
  5. install
  6. force
  7. accustom
  8. acquaint
  1. give
  2. shift
  3. hike
  4. something
  5. self
  6. apply
  7. better
  8. busy
  1. by
  2. bury
  3. catch
  4. commit
  5. corner
  6. deliver
  7. epiphany
  8. feel
  1. leave
  2. resign
  3. pride
  4. idiom
  5. number one
  6. amuse
  7. confess
  8. dissemble
  1. misspeak

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