ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Emself

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech pronoun

Quick meaning: Emself is a pronoun meaning (rare, reflexive, nonstandard) Em, a gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of em, equivalent to themself (also used for emphasis).

Meaning

(rare, reflexive, nonstandard) Em, a gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of em, equivalent to themself (also used for emphasis).

Example Sentences

In this particular instance, a wizard eventually took it upon emself to @toad Mr_Bungle.
The adult worries much less; is cautious, sensible and knows how to protect emself and eir system from attack and error.
Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if ey should trip up in the new usage, ey would only have emself to blame.
As he^([sic]) struggled to yank Sarah back to eir room, Edward promised emself that ey'd do whatever ey could to save what was left of eir sibling's sanity- and protect em from their monster of a mother.

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