oneself

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:35:01

One`self" (?), pron.

A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self.

One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self=one's self. Morris.

 

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