myself
/maɪˈsɛlf/ pronoun A2- Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. · I taught myself.· (I) don’t think much of your new car, myself.
- Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described. · I myself have witnessed the event.
- In my normal state of body or mind. · I feel like myself.
- Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself. · Give the ball to John or myself.
From the library
“I must again excuse myself, M.
Nichols was in Meryton last night: I saw her passing by, and went out myself on purpose to know the truth of it; and she told me that it was certainly true.
I own that I am lost in wonder to find myself promoted to an honor of which I feel myself unworthy—that of being the husband of Mercédès.”
“Nothing—I was speaking to myself.
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