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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ourselves

Our·selves′, 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.

We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal further then we usually do. Locke.

Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand. Dryden.

☞ The form ourself is usec only in the regal or formal style after we or us, denoting a single person.

Unless we would denude ourself of all force. Clarendon.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.