herself

pron

1. (feminine, personal, pronoun, reflexive, singular, third-person)Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.

   “She injured herself.”

   “This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.”

   “Lizzo, who is known for messages of self-love and wider acceptance, has recently said as much as she shared that she is encouraging a stance of body neutrality for herself and others.”

2. (emphatic, feminine, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person)She; an intensifier of the female subject or object, often used to indicate the directness or exclusiveness of that person .

   “She was injured herself.”

3. (Ireland, feminine, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person)The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)

   “What's herself up to this time?”

   “Have you seen herself yet this morning?”

   “Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.”

4. (alt-of, honorific)Honorific alternative letter-case form of herself, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

   “It is certain that Juan Diego was a virtuous man, who tried to direct his life along the road of righteousness, of honesty, of virtue, and to make all that pleased God bloom, who was chosen by the Mother of God Herself to be Her [i.e. the mother's] messenger.”