Meaning

(reflexive) Hir, themselves; gender-neutral third-person singular object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with gendered himself and herself..

Definitions by Sense

1. (reflexive) Hir, themselves; gender-neutral third-person singular object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with gendered himself and herself.
2. (emphatic) Sie; an intensive repetition of a gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of a predicate.

Example Sentences

It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep.

Hir nostrils flared, and s/he stopped where s/he was, balancing hirself on hir toes without thought, as if poising hirself to make some sort of attack on whoever was there.

The working person discovered that hir own body belonged, not to the state or to the moralist or to the authoritarian doctor, but to hirself.

Alas, S/He then remembered S/He had created Hirself to be omnisciently all-knowing and all-seeing, so there were no possibilities S/He didn't already know.

Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n' Fresh Doe.

A harrowing series of violent and transphobic confrontations (including some with hir parents) drives Ludo to attempt to kill hirself by going to sleep in a freezer.

The trouble starts when gender (identity) ceases to be a reference point for connecting with a living growing person and is substituted for the person hirself.

OOC talk and actions are taken to represent the player hirself and help other players to form an image, however tentative it may be, of that player.

Synonyms for hirself

When Should You Use Hirself?

Use hirself when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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