EGAVE

ourself

About 0.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. pronoun The reflexive of the royal or editorial we: myself (as used by one who is a monarch, writer or speaker when referring to oneself as we).
    In the present study, we will limit ourself to the simplest of cases.
  2. pronoun The reflexive of the generic we: oneself.
    We should love our neighbor as ourself.
  3. pronoun Reflexive of "we" referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care.
    Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourself this morning?
  4. pronoun The reflexive of we: ourselves.

Similar words

witness ourselves yourself themselves themself thyself our itself gotta himself

Often followed by

to and in as at with from is that

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