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Definition of Ourselves
1. pron. ; sing. Ourself (&?;). An emphasized form of the pronoun of the first person plural; -- used as a subject, usually with we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case.
Definition of Ourselves
1. Pronoun. (reflexive) us; (non-gloss definition the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.) ¹
2. Pronoun. (emphatic) we; (non-gloss definition intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ourselves
1. [pron]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ourselves
Literary usage of Ourselves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"TRUE and substantial wisdom principally consists of two parts, the knowledge of
God, and the knowledge of ourselves. But, while these two branches of ..."
2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1873)
"Get thee gone: to-morrow We'll hear ourselves again. \,Exit Murderer. ...
ourselves is much more properly used than ourself, the modem language of royalty. ..."
3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"We need not keep them to ourselves ; we mav communicate them to the whole ...
When we teach we must confine ourselves to those smaller domains which arc ..."
4. An Introduction to Philosophy by Orlin Ottman Fletcher (1913)
"—We find ourselves in a world where there are things and other persons, ...
This fact of the reality of ourselves and all that is about us has been ..."
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