Ourselves

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • pronoun. Those ones identical with us.
  • pronoun. Used reflexively as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition: We bought ourselves an espresso machine.
  • pronoun. Used for emphasis: We ourselves were certain of the facts.
  • pronoun. Used in an absolute construction: Feeling chilly ourselves, we moved the party indoors.
  • pronoun. Our normal or healthy condition or state: We're feeling ourselves again after our bout with the flu. See Usage Note at myself.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • pronoun. us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
  • pronoun. we; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • pronoun. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • We or us, not others: often, when used as a nominative, added to we by way of emphasis; when in the objective, often without emphasis and simply serving as the reflexive pronoun corresponding to us: as, we blame ourselves; we pledge ourselves.
  • Word Usage
    "The charity which we should thus bear to ourselves is the model of that which we owe to our neighbour, whom we are to love _as ourselves_, not with the same intensity, but with the same quality of love, wishing him the good, human and divine, temporal and eternal, which we wish for ourselves, though not so earnestly as we wish it for ourselves."
    Rhyme
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