intensive pronoun

Noun

Meaning

(grammar) A pronoun that emphasizes a preceding noun or another pronoun (as the word itself in “borrowing is itself a bad habit”)

(grammar) A personal pronoun compounded with -self and used in apposition with a noun or pronoun or as pronominal adjunct (as itself in “the cat looked innocence itself” or himself in “he made it himself”).

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