itself
See also: it self
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɪtˈsɛlf/
Audio (US): (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪtˈself/
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun
edititself (the third person singular, neuter, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of it, masculine himself, feminine herself, gender-neutral themself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive pronoun) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- The door closed by itself
- (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
- Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and hTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
- The door itself is quite heavy.
- (emphatic, archaic) it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
- 1842, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines:
- The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.
Synonyms
edit- itsself (obsolete)
Derived terms
editTranslations
edit(reflexive) it
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(emphatic) it
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See also
editEnglish personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
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