ittself

Pronoun

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

1. (neuter, personal, pronoun, reflexive, singular, third-person) 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).
2. (emphatic, neuter, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
   • The door itself is quite heavy.
3. (archaic, emphatic, neuter, personal, pronoun, singular) 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