ourselvespron.

Brit.

/aʊəˈsɛlvz/,

/ɑːˈsɛlvz/, U.S.

/aʊrˈsɛlvz/,

/ɑrˈsɛlvz/

Forms:

α. 1500s oure selfes, 1500s oure selues, 1500s oure selves, 1500s ourselu's, 1500s–1600s our selfes, 1500s–1600s ourselfs, 1500s–1600s our selues, 1500s–1600s ourselues, 1500s–1600s our selves, 1500s– ourselves, 1600s our'selfes, 1600s–1700s ourselvs; Scottish pre-1700 orselfis, pre-1700 oure selffis, pre-1700 oure selffs, pre-1700 oure selfis, pre-1700 our selffis, pre-1700 ourselffis, pre-1700 our selfis, pre-1700 our sellfis, pre-1700 oursellfis, pre-1700 1700s– ourselves; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– wurselves; U.S. regional and nonstandard 1800s ourselbes (chiefly in African-American usage), 1800s– ourselfs.

β. Scottish pre-1700 our sellis, pre-1700 1700s– oursels, 1700s– oorsels, 1700s– oursells, 1800s oor-sels, 1800s wirsel's, 1800s– oorsel's, 1800s– oursel's, 1900s– oorsells, 1900s– wirsils (Orkney and Shetland), 1900s– wursels; English regional (northern) 1800s oursel's, 1800s– oursels, 1800s– wersels; Irish English (northern) 1800s oursels, 1900s– oorsels, 1900s– wersels, 1900s– werselves; U.S. regional and nonstandard 1900s– oursels.

γ. English regional (northern and midlands) 1800s– oursens, 1800s– wersens.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ourself pron.

Etymology: < ourself pron. + plural ending -s. Compare earlier themselves pron., and compare also yourselves pron.With the β. and γ. forms compare note at myself pron.

The emphatic and reflexive pronoun corresponding to we, us. See also ourself pron.

I. Emphatic uses.

1. In apposition to the first person plural pronoun: for our part; personally; as far as we are concerned.

a. In apposition to the subjective pronoun we.When used for simple emphasis ourselves is generally placed immediately after we; in other positions there is often an explicit or implicit contrast with the idea of any other person performing the action.

ΚΠ

1526 Bible (Tyndale) John iv. f. cxxiiij^v We have herde hym oure selves.

1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 119 What booteth it of Gentries brag to boast,..When we ourselues no warlike practise trow, But rest ourselues with this old idle know?

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 The light..that we haue attained vnto our selues.

1624 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. (1948) II. 299 We the abonewrittin James Herrone and John Edȝar with our handis led at the pen..becaus we cannot write ourselffis.

1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 254 We our selves can neither be confined..to a rat of words put in our mouth, nor relish the like practice from others [etc.].

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. ii. 36 We anes were young our sells.

1777 R. Forbes Ulysses 15 Doin' well oursells, we canna help Tho' a' friends binna steddy.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. v. 85/2 We ourselves, restricted to the duty of Indicator, shall forbear commentary.

1884 M. Oliphant Sir Tom II. x. 153 When we are ourselves poor.

1938 Amer. Home Oct. 92/2 We use it ourselves, entertaining guests with a ping-pong tournament after dinner.

1988 Hindu 25 Feb. 7/2 We have ourselves grown and today have become a force to reckon with.

2001 Mod. Maturity Mar. 97/1 Quite often we ourselves are the real roadblocks to working less.

†b. In apposition to the objective pronoun us as object of a preposition. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 19 Appropriated to us ourselves.

2. Used instead of the objective pronoun us as the object of a preposition or verb.

ΚΠ

1543 More's Hist. Richard III in Chron. J. Hardyng f. lxx Inward war amongest our selues.

1544 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 201 And that ane gryt pairt of our selffis and guidis var fled..to landward.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. i. 74 The Treasure..with our selues, all rest at thy dispose.

1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (ed. 8) iii. 108 Ourselves are the greatest snare to ourselves.

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iii. 149 Least we become Adversary to ourselves.

1784 W. Cowper Let. 22 Feb. (1981) II. 217 The same Incognito to all except ourselves made us his almoners this year likewise.

1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 320 Very satisfactory..to the owners of the ships if not to ourselves.

1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 87 Nobbut one of oursens dressed up like.

1927 E. Bowen Hotel xxii. 270 It's a way out for us both—can't you see it so?—a way out of ourselves.

1957 Listener 26 Sept. 484/1 The shopworn, finger-soiled article it inevitably seems to ourselves.

1997 T. Jordan EastEnders (BBC TV script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 570. 16 Arguing amongst ourselves isn't gonna get us anywhere is it?

3. Used instead of the subjective pronoun we. As simple subject, as part of a compound subject or predicate, or after than or as. Also as simple predicate.

ΚΠ

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B1^v Selfe-loue is better then any guilding to make that seeme gorgious, wherein our selues are parties.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 16 Our selues will heare, The accuser and the accused freely speake.

1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (ed. 8) iii. 108 Ourselves are the greatest snare to ourselves.

1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 136 Our selves are at a loss to give a Reason for our Thesis.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. i. 194 This may be strictly stiled defrauding the Poor (sometimes perhaps those who are poorer than ourselves ).

1773 Life N. Frowde 47 We were not ourselves till some Weeks after their Departure.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. xvii. 388 We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 175 Since the knight Came not to us, of us to claim the prize, Ourselves will send it after.

1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art v. 87 Malice, the desire that others, especially those better than ourselves, should suffer, is a perpetual source of pleasure to man; but it takes different shapes.

1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) ix. 418 Most of us, arriving at the notorious inn.., would find that the bed we were offered was far larger than ourselves.

II. Reflexive uses.

4. As direct or indirect object or as the object of a preposition. Cf. ourself pron. 4.

ΚΠ

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. iii. 5 Nor that we are sufficient off oure selves to thynke eny thynge as it were of oure selves.

?1529 Proper Dyaloge Gentillman & Husbandman sig. A vj We tourmoyle oure selfes nyght and daye..For to maynteine the clargyes facciones.

1581 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1847) II. 407 Gyf it sall happin ws velfullie absent oursellfis fra the ressait thairof.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 We subject our selues to euery ones censure.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Hh1 If we..did not as much flatter our selves, and disguise our selves, to our selves, as we flatteringly disguise our selves to others.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 182. ⁋1 We shall not shortly have so much as a Landskip or Frost-Scene to refresh ourselves.

1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. I. 74 We are capable of governing ourselves.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 194 To see oursels as others see us!

1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 265 We were obliged to wrap ourselves..in ox-skins, which the traders call buffalo-robes.

1860 W. M. Thackeray De Juventute in Roundabout Papers in Wks. (1872) X. 61 At the pastrycook's we may have over-eaten ourselves.

1900 H. S. Holland Old & New 97 Whether East or West, we all with one consent excuse ourselves from our responsibilities.

1935 G. Greene Eng. made Me ii. 71 We may as well amuse ourselves.

1993 R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1994) 101 We broke ourselves laughing, because it was funny.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ourselves
释义	ourselvespron. Brit. /aʊəˈsɛlvz/, /ɑːˈsɛlvz/, U.S. /aʊrˈsɛlvz/, /ɑrˈsɛlvz/ Forms: α. 1500s oure selfes, 1500s oure selues, 1500s oure selves, 1500s ourselu's, 1500s–1600s our selfes, 1500s–1600s ourselfs, 1500s–1600s our selues, 1500s–1600s ourselues, 1500s–1600s our selves, 1500s– ourselves, 1600s our'selfes, 1600s–1700s ourselvs; Scottish pre-1700 orselfis, pre-1700 oure selffis, pre-1700 oure selffs, pre-1700 oure selfis, pre-1700 our selffis, pre-1700 ourselffis, pre-1700 our selfis, pre-1700 our sellfis, pre-1700 oursellfis, pre-1700 1700s– ourselves; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– wurselves; U.S. regional and nonstandard 1800s ourselbes (chiefly in African-American usage), 1800s– ourselfs. β. Scottish pre-1700 our sellis, pre-1700 1700s– oursels, 1700s– oorsels, 1700s– oursells, 1800s oor-sels, 1800s wirsel's, 1800s– oorsel's, 1800s– oursel's, 1900s– oorsells, 1900s– wirsils (Orkney and Shetland), 1900s– wursels; English regional (northern) 1800s oursel's, 1800s– oursels, 1800s– wersels; Irish English (northern) 1800s oursels, 1900s– oorsels, 1900s– wersels, 1900s– werselves; U.S. regional and nonstandard 1900s– oursels. γ. English regional (northern and midlands) 1800s– oursens, 1800s– wersens. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ourself pron. Etymology: < ourself pron. + plural ending -s. Compare earlier themselves pron., and compare also yourselves pron.With the β. and γ. forms compare note at myself pron. The emphatic and reflexive pronoun corresponding to we, us. See also ourself pron. I. Emphatic uses. 1. In apposition to the first person plural pronoun: for our part; personally; as far as we are concerned. a. In apposition to the subjective pronoun we.When used for simple emphasis ourselves is generally placed immediately after we; in other positions there is often an explicit or implicit contrast with the idea of any other person performing the action. ΚΠ 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John iv. f. cxxiiij^v We have herde hym oure selves. 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 119 What booteth it of Gentries brag to boast,..When we ourselues no warlike practise trow, But rest ourselues with this old idle know? 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 The light..that we haue attained vnto our selues. 1624 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. (1948) II. 299 We the abonewrittin James Herrone and John Edȝar with our handis led at the pen..becaus we cannot write ourselffis. 1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 254 We our selves can neither be confined..to a rat of words put in our mouth, nor relish the like practice from others [etc.]. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. ii. 36 We anes were young our sells. 1777 R. Forbes Ulysses 15 Doin' well oursells, we canna help Tho' a' friends binna steddy. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. v. 85/2 We ourselves, restricted to the duty of Indicator, shall forbear commentary. 1884 M. Oliphant Sir Tom II. x. 153 When we are ourselves poor. 1938 Amer. Home Oct. 92/2 We use it ourselves, entertaining guests with a ping-pong tournament after dinner. 1988 Hindu 25 Feb. 7/2 We have ourselves grown and today have become a force to reckon with. 2001 Mod. Maturity Mar. 97/1 Quite often we ourselves are the real roadblocks to working less. †b. In apposition to the objective pronoun us as object of a preposition. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 19 Appropriated to us ourselves. 2. Used instead of the objective pronoun us as the object of a preposition or verb. ΚΠ 1543 More's Hist. Richard III in Chron. J. Hardyng f. lxx Inward war amongest our selues. 1544 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 201 And that ane gryt pairt of our selffis and guidis var fled..to landward. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. i. 74 The Treasure..with our selues, all rest at thy dispose. View more context for this quotation 1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (ed. 8) iii. 108 Ourselves are the greatest snare to ourselves. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iii. 149 Least we become Adversary to ourselves. 1784 W. Cowper Let. 22 Feb. (1981) II. 217 The same Incognito to all except ourselves made us his almoners this year likewise. 1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 320 Very satisfactory..to the owners of the ships if not to ourselves. 1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 87 Nobbut one of oursens dressed up like. 1927 E. Bowen Hotel xxii. 270 It's a way out for us both—can't you see it so?—a way out of ourselves. 1957 Listener 26 Sept. 484/1 The shopworn, finger-soiled article it inevitably seems to ourselves. 1997 T. Jordan EastEnders (BBC TV script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 570. 16 Arguing amongst ourselves isn't gonna get us anywhere is it? 3. Used instead of the subjective pronoun we. As simple subject, as part of a compound subject or predicate, or after than or as. Also as simple predicate. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B1^v Selfe-loue is better then any guilding to make that seeme gorgious, wherein our selues are parties. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 16 Our selues will heare, The accuser and the accused freely speake. View more context for this quotation 1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (ed. 8) iii. 108 Ourselves are the greatest snare to ourselves. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 136 Our selves are at a loss to give a Reason for our Thesis. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. i. 194 This may be strictly stiled defrauding the Poor (sometimes perhaps those who are poorer than ourselves ). View more context for this quotation 1773 Life N. Frowde 47 We were not ourselves till some Weeks after their Departure. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. xvii. 388 We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 175 Since the knight Came not to us, of us to claim the prize, Ourselves will send it after. 1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art v. 87 Malice, the desire that others, especially those better than ourselves, should suffer, is a perpetual source of pleasure to man; but it takes different shapes. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) ix. 418 Most of us, arriving at the notorious inn.., would find that the bed we were offered was far larger than ourselves. II. Reflexive uses. 4. As direct or indirect object or as the object of a preposition. Cf. ourself pron. 4. ΚΠ 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. iii. 5 Nor that we are sufficient off oure selves to thynke eny thynge as it were of oure selves. ?1529 Proper Dyaloge Gentillman & Husbandman sig. A vj We tourmoyle oure selfes nyght and daye..For to maynteine the clargyes facciones. 1581 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1847) II. 407 Gyf it sall happin ws velfullie absent oursellfis fra the ressait thairof. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 We subject our selues to euery ones censure. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Hh1 If we..did not as much flatter our selves, and disguise our selves, to our selves, as we flatteringly disguise our selves to others. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 182. ⁋1 We shall not shortly have so much as a Landskip or Frost-Scene to refresh ourselves. 1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. I. 74 We are capable of governing ourselves. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 194 To see oursels as others see us! 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 265 We were obliged to wrap ourselves..in ox-skins, which the traders call buffalo-robes. 1860 W. M. Thackeray De Juventute in Roundabout Papers in Wks. (1872) X. 61 At the pastrycook's we may have over-eaten ourselves. 1900 H. S. Holland Old & New 97 Whether East or West, we all with one consent excuse ourselves from our responsibilities. 1935 G. Greene Eng. made Me ii. 71 We may as well amuse ourselves. 1993 R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1994) 101 We broke ourselves laughing, because it was funny. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < pron.1526
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