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ourselves

[ ahr-selvz, ouuhr-, ou-er- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural pronoun

a reflexive form of we (used as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the direct object of a preposition):
We are deceiving ourselves. Give us a moment to ourselves.
(used as an intensive with we ):
We ourselves would never say such a thing.
Informal. (used in place of we or us, especially in compound subjects, objects, and complements):
The children and ourselves thank you kindly. When it satisfies ourselves, it will be ready to market. The ones who really want the new system are the manager and ourselves.
(used in place of we or us after as, than, or but ):
How many parents are as fortunate as ourselves? No one loves skiing more than ourselves. Nobody heard it but ourselves.
our customary, normal, or healthy selves:
After a good rest, we're almost ourselves again.

ourselves

/ aʊəˈsɛlvz /

1. the reflexive form of we or us
2. (intensifier)
  we ourselves will finish it
preceded by a copula our usual selves
we are ourselves when we're together
not_standard.
used instead of we or us in compound noun phrases
other people and ourselves

1300–50; Middle English oure selven; our, self, -en ⁴, -s ³

We did ThunderAnt stuff for ourselves and just put it online, and then it blossomed into something else.

But we are afraid and we wonder to ourselves who will be next.

What could be more important, to make sure that side of things is right before we tie ourselves to someone forever?

Expectations, reasonable or unrealistic, remain so even if we impose them on ourselves.

Should we cancel gatherings, reunions, excursions, or throw ourselves into them with even more gratitude for one another?

It was in the college stage that most of us made out our religion and made it real for ourselves.

Calkilate we should do ourselves more harm than him by shooting down his people.

We won't want much more ourselves, for we are nearly at our last landing place.

That will give us time to turn about us, and to prepare ourselves against similar unpleasant casualties.

Oh, but surely if we have to call ourselves Wurzel-Flummery it would count as earned income.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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