Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- pronoun neologism, reflexive
per ,themself ;Gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form ofper .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
per (from person) + self (like himself, herself, etc.)
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word perself.
Examples
-
And after, you know, doing all this travel and seeing what has happened, I find it difficult to give my perself -- myself permission to be pessimistic in a way.
Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century 1999
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.