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herselfe

herselfe is the obsolete spelling of herself.

Meaning of herself

Pronoun

herself (the third person singular, feminine, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of she, masculine himself, neuter itself, gender-neutral singular themself or themselves, plural themselves)

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

Questions about herselfe

What is herselfe the obsolete spelling of?
Herselfe is the obsolete spelling of herself.

Words near herselfe in the dictionary

  1. Herschels
  2. herse
  3. hersed
  4. Hersee
  5. herself
  6. herselfe
  7. herselves
  8. hersen
  9. herses
  10. Hersey
  11. Hersh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: herselfe (page history and authors); herself (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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