Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A pronoun used reflexively for emphasis after, or in place of, thou: as, thou thyself shalt go (that is, thou shalt go and no other).
Wiktionary
- pro. archaic or literary, informal yourself (as the object of a verb or preposition or as an intensifier)
GNU Webster's 1913
Examples
“Do not then any longer fear to part with thine existence, it will at least put an end to those richly merited torments thou hast inflicted on thyself; _Death, in delivering the earth from an incommodious burthen, will also deliver thee from thy most cruel enemy, thyself_.”
“Know in thyself and All one self-same soul," says the old Hindu poem "banish the dream that sunders part from whole.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life
“Then she asked him, “O Moslem! the slaying of Nazarenes is lawful to you folk; what then hast thou to say about being slain thyself?””
“Quoth the King, “O weak o wit, I bade not my nobles deal thus with thee but that we might gather together unto thee wealth galore; for may be thou wilt bethink thee of thy country and family and repine for them and be minded to return to thy mother-land; so shalt thou take from our country muchel of money to maintain thyself withal, what while thou livest in thine own country.””
“Then said the Caliph, “O Ala al-Din, why hast thou absented thyself from the Divan?””
“Rejoined he, “Not so;” and she, “Go in thyself and see; it is not wide enough for thee.””
“Jewish tradition, the injunction to "love thy neighbour as thyself," is considered to be the very essence of the”
“Dost thou call thyself king because thou excellest in cedar?”
“Now Autolycus once had gone to the rich land of Ithaca, and found his daughters son a child new-born, and when he was making an end of supper, behold, Eurycleia set the babe on his knees, and spake and hailed him: Autolycus, find now a name thyself to give thy childs own son; for lo, he is a child of many prayers.”
“I'll put thee under lock and key before thee shalt ruin thyself, and disgrace thy father.”
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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The Triumph of Bullshit
being words from the poem of the same name by T.S. Eliot
etiolated, alembicated, orotund, tasteless, fantastical, monotonous, crotchety, constipated, impotent, galamatias, affected, imitated and 26 more...
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thou shalt speak English
thee, thy, thou, thine, thyself, art, hast, mayhaps, good gog, shalt, ye, nay and 6 more...
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