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your⋅self

  [yoor-self, yawr-, yohr-, yer-]
Use yourself in a Sentence
–pronoun, plural -selves  [-selvz] .
1. (an emphatic appositive of you or ye ): a letter you yourself wrote.
2. a reflexive form of you (used as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition): Don't blame yourself. Did you ever ask yourself “why”? You can think for yourself.
3. Informal. (used in place of you, esp. in compound subjects, objects, and complements): Ted and yourself have been elected. We saw your sister and yourself at the game. People like yourselves always feel like that.
4. (used in absolute constructions): Yourself having so little money, how could they expect you to help?
5. your normal or customary self: You'll soon be yourself again.
6. (used in place of you after as, than, or but): scholars as famous as yourselves; a girl no older than yourself.
7. oneself: The surest way is to do it yourself.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME; see your, self

Usage note:
See myself.
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your·self   (yŏŏr-sělf', yôr-, yōr-, yər-)   
pron.  
  1. That one identical with you:
    1. Used reflexively as the direct or indirect object of a verb or as the object of a preposition: Did you buy yourself a gift?
    2. Used for emphasis: You yourself were certain of the facts.
    3. Used in an absolute construction: In office yourself, you helped push the bill along.
  2. Your normal or healthy condition: Are you feeling yourself again? See Usage Note at myself.
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Yourself

Your*self"\, pron.; pl. Yourselves. [Your + self.] An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself.

Of which right now ye han yourselve heard. --Chaucer.

If yourselves are old, make it your cause. --Shak.

Why should you be so cruel to yourself ? --Milton.

The religious movement which you yourself, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to last. --J. H. Newman.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : yourself
Spanish: te, se,
German: du, ihr, Sie selbst, dich, euch, sich selbst,
Japanese: あなた自身を
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