ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hirself

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /hiɹˈsɛlf/ · Part of speech pronoun

Quick meaning: Hirself is a pronoun 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.

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.

More Meanings

  1. (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.
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.
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.
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.

Synonyms for hirself

Depending on context, synonyms include themself, emself, perself.

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