hym

Pronoun

him (personal pronoun, objective case)

1. (objective, personal, pronoun) With dative effect or as an indirect object.
   • […]therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […]
2. (objective, personal, pronoun) Following a preposition.
   • She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
3. (objective, personal, pronoun) With accusative effect or as a direct object.
   • ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
4. (colloquial, objective, personal, pronoun, uncommon) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
   • Now him and Bernie are best friends.
5. (objective, personal, pronoun) Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
   • Who was there? —Him.
6. (archaic, objective, personal, pronoun) Used reflexively: (to) himself.
   • Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts

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