itself
it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
Pronoun
- it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- When the opportunity presented itself, no feasible course of action suggested itself (to us).
- The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity....
- it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
- The door itself is quite heavy.
- Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo...
- So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. - 1933 March 4,...
- it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
- The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless. - 1842, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines:
Origin
From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.
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Ime me myselfmemysen mine mymineme we us ourselvesourselfoursen oursourn our you yourselfyoursen yoursyourn your thou thee thyselftheeselfthysen thine thythine youye yourselves you ally'all you guys yous y'allselves all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
Derived
a house divided against itself cannot stand being-for-itself being-in-itself dense-in-itself end in itself history repeats itself in and of itself in itself in-itselfness lend itself to of itself pay for itself repeat itself simplicity itself suggest itself the trash takes itself out thing-in-itself thing in itself unto itself write itself