usself
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English. Equivalent to us + -self.
Pronoun edit
usself (first-person plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “usself”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronoun edit
usself
- ourselves
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parson's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, section 19, line 349:
- And therfore seith Seint Iohn the Evaungelist: ‘if that we seyn that we beth with-oute sinne, we deceyve us-selve, and trouthe is nat in us.’
- And therefore says Saint John the Evangelist: ‘If we say that we are without sin, we deceive ourselves, and truth is not in us.’
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parson's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, section 19, line 349: