him/herself
him/herself pronoun: himself or herself; singular of themselves, used as a reflexive and gender-neutral reference to the third-person singular.
Pronoun
him/herself (third person, singular, plural themselves)
- Himself or herself; singular of themselves, used as a reflexive and gender-neutral reference to the third-person singular.
- Johannes de Moor has argued convincingly that the Priestly writer assumed the first human being was androgynous, both male and female, like God him/herself.2003, Hennie J. Marsman, Women in Ugarit and Israel: their social and religious position in the context of the ancient Near East, BRILL, →ISBN, page 227
Forms of him/herself
| plural | themselves |
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Questions about him/herself
- What does him/herself mean?
- Him/herself means himself or herself; singular of themselves, used as a reflexive and gender-neutral reference to the third-person singular.
- What part of speech is him/herself?
- Him/herself is a pronoun.
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