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themselves
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c. in northern dialect, standard from 1540s, alteration of Middle English tham-self , emphatic plural pronoun, also reciprocal pronoun (14c.); see them + self , with self , originally an inflected adjective, treated as a noun with a meaning "person" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
pron. (non-gloss definition: The reflexive case of '''they''', the third-person plural personal pronoun.) The group of people, animals(,) or objects previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (qualifier: also used for emphasis). ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pronoun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES amused themselves ▪ The kids amused themselves playing hide-and-seek. purging themselves ▪ Anorexics may overeat before purging themselves or vomiting. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES among yourselves/ourselves/themselves ...
Wikipedia
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Themselves is an underground hip hop duo based in Oakland , California . It consists of rapper Doseone and producer Jel . Dax Pierson , from the affiliated group Subtle , has played keyboards for the group. However, he is not considered an official member. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Themselves \Them*selves"\, pron. The himself, herself, and itself. See Himself , Herself , Itself .
Usage examples of themselves.
But beyond Beneventum they had mostly to avail themselves of inns, none of which, Julia now realized, could have accommodated them in their old state.
The accomplished citizens of the Greek and Roman republics, whose characters could adapt themselves to the bar, the senate, the camp, or the schools, had learned to write, to speak, and to act with the same spirit, and with equal abilities.
Several chances had presented themselves for accomplishing what he had set out to do, but his courage had failed him each time.
Nights and Days in Labour that they might become more learned in their Art, whence more certain health would accrew to the sick with their estimation and greater glory to themselves.
I think almost any invalid who will visit your Hotel, and see for themselves the wonderful appliances that you have accumulated for the cure of disease, must soon become convinced that if there can be any hope of relief it can be secured there, if anywhere.
World War broke down many of the inhibitions of violence and bloodshed that had been built up during the progressive years of the nineteenth century and an accumulating number of intelligent, restless unemployed men, in a new world of motor-cars, telephones, plate-glass shop windows, unbarred country houses and trustful social habits, found themselves faced with illegal opportunities far more attractive than any legal behaviour-system now afforded them.
Was it because the people themselves, through their individual accumulative system, created conditions whereby only the most abject and debased mortals could survive?
Each of these may be thought of as composed of subagents, or more accurately as themselves agencies composed of agents.
Chairman read from the statement yesterday that the charge against these men was disloyalty, and that they had affiliated themselves with a party whose platform and program call for an overthrow of this Government by violence, he added that we will prove this beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Party in America is affiliated, according to the testimony of the Socialists themselves at Albany.
Tens of millions found themselves longing for material affluence of the sort their American overlords so conspicuously enjoyed.
The three members of the agronomic team were there, sitting near Cathartes on the floor, whispering among themselves.
Perhaps an extravagant fable of the times may conceal an allegorical picture of these fanatics, who tortured each other and themselves.
Our adversaries do not deny that even here there is a system of law and penalty: and surely we cannot in justice blame a dominion which awards to every one his due, where virtue has its honour, and vice comes to its fitting shame, in which there are not merely representations of the gods, but the gods themselves, watchers from above, and--as we read--easily rebutting human reproaches, since they lead all things in order from a beginning to an end, allotting to each human being, as life follows life, a fortune shaped to all that has preceded--the destiny which, to those that do not penetrate it, becomes the matter of boorish insolence upon things divine.
Licinius, he was flattered with the hope that the legions of Illyricum, allured by his presents and promises, would desert the standard of that prince, and unanimously declare themselves his soldiers and subjects.