herself

[her-self]

pronoun

1. an emphatic appositive of her or she.

   She herself wrote the letter.

2. a reflexive form of her.

   She supports herself.

3. (used in absolute constructions).

   Herself still only a child, she had to take care of her four younger brothers and sisters.

4. (used as the object of a preposition or as the direct or indirect object of a verb).

   She gave herself a facial massage. He asked her for a picture of herself.

5. (used in comparisons after as orthan ).

   She found out that the others were even more nervous than herself.

6. her normal or customary self.

   After a few weeks of rest, she will be herself again.

herself

/ həˈsɛlf /

pronoun

1. 1. the reflexive form of she or her

   2. (intensifier)

      the queen herself signed the letter

2. (preceded by a copula) her normal or usual self

   she looks herself again after the operation

3. the wife or woman of the house

   is herself at home?

Usage

See myself.

Word History and Origins

Origin of herself¹

before 1000; Middle English hire-selfe, Old English hire self. See her, self

Example Sentences

Now 34 and a mom herself, Madylin reflected on growing up on a hit series.

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She lived with her grandmother for a spell, supported herself for another and eventually fled to Edinburgh, Scotland, while still a teenager, working in a hostel bar for a year before returning to Norway.

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Surprisingly, Elphaba fills the bucket up herself, to fake her own demise.

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It’s a place where she’s allowed to transmit herself to a curious audience without being cut down in the moment, a platform to become larger than life.

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Moments later, the executive—herself a shakedown passenger—dipped a napkin into a glass of spring water and cleaned a scuff mark off a menu.

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