himself

pron

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

   “He injured himself.”

   “Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.”

   “One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.”

2. (emphatic, masculine, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person)He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate

   “He was injured himself.”

   “Therefore the Lord himſelfe ſhal giue you a ſigne:[…].”

   “The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.”

3. (Ireland, masculine, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person)The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.

   “Yet it is that himselfe had been liberally gratified by his Unkle with militarie rewards, before ever he went to warres.”

   “With shame remembers, while himself was one / Of the same herd, himself the same had done.”

   “Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet.”

4. (Ireland, masculine, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person)The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others)

   “Has himself come down to breakfast yet?”

   “Have you seen himself yet this morning?”

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