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mysell

mysell is the pronunciation spelling of myself.

mysell is the obsolete form of mesel.

Meaning of myself

Pronoun

myself (reflexive case of I)

  1. (pronoun, reflexive) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.
    • I taught myself.
  2. Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.
    • I myself have witnessed the event.
  3. In my normal state of body or mind.
    • I feel like myself.
  4. (proscribed) Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.
    • Give the ball to John or myself.
  5. (archaic, proscribed) I (as the subject of a verb).
    • My wife and myself want to go on vacation.
  6. (India, Pakistan, nonstandard) my name is...
    • Myself John.

Meaning of mesel

Adjective

mesel

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of leprous: having leprosy or a similar skin disorder.
    • Also in that flome Jordan Naaman of Syria bathed him, that was full rich, but he was mesell; and there anon he took his health.1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
    Synonyms:
    leprous
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) Synonym of wretched.
    Synonyms:
    wretched
  3. (figuratively, obsolete) Synonym of repulsive.
    Synonyms:
    repulsive
  4. (figuratively, obsolete) Synonym of sinful.
    Synonyms:
    sinful
  5. (obsolete) Synonym of diseased, particularly visibly displaying a diseased exterior.
    Synonyms:
    diseased, particularly visibly displaying a diseased exterior

See all 8 meanings of mesel

Forms of mysell

pluralmysells

Origin of mysell

From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.

Questions about mysell

What is mysell the pronunciation spelling of?
Mysell is the pronunciation spelling of myself.

Words near mysell in the dictionary

  1. MYs
  2. mysal
  3. mysals
  4. myself
  5. myselfe
  6. mysell
  7. mysells
  8. myselves
  9. mysen
  10. Myshelle
  11. Mysia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mysell (page history and authors); myself (page history and authors); mesel (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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