Definitions
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- pronoun neologism, reflexive
hir ,themself ;Gender-neutral third-person singular object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with genderedhimself andherself . - pronoun neologism, emphatic
sie ; an intensive repetition of a gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of a predicate.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not to mention that the spectre of eventual heart disease is hardly enough to prevent someone from having self-confidence or enjoying hirself.
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing 2009
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If a sex worker wants to exploit hirself, rather than subject hirself to being overworked by some boss, then that's pretty much at their discretion, right?
On Body, Mind and Spirit, and our freedom to use them as we wish. fantasyecho 2008
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When any random perv could amuse hirself by trolling the phonebook for feminine names and then calling the number and etc.....
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They all forget that character witnesses have to be given by surrogates, not the candidate hirself.
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"Dear Professor Radical," wrote a longtime lurker who had finally decided, in desperation, to reveal hirself.
Advanced Interviewing; or, My Favorite Martian Tenured Radical 2009
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"Dear Professor Radical," wrote a longtime lurker who had finally decided, in desperation, to reveal hirself.
Archive 2009-02-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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It can also be seen as self-sacrifice, God sacrificing hirself to humanity - and winning hirself back.
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Each individual is unique in hir values and therefore what one would like to have for hirself is very often not what another would choose.
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It will be something that serves the same purposes - that of a standard against which each person can measure the value to hirself of any economic factor, a medium of exchange of such value and a store of value.
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The author hirself says just that, and why s/he thinks it is so important to make hir information widely known:
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