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ourself

Pronoun

Meaning

(reflexive) The reflexive of the royal or editorial we: myself (as used by a monarch, writer or speaker who is referring to themself as we).
In the present study, we will limit ourself to the simplest of cases.

(reflexive) The reflexive of the generic we: oneself.
We should love our neighbor as ourself.

(African-American Vernacular) The reflexive of the we: ourselves.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. Iris Murdoch

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. Bell hooks

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other. Luciano Pavarotti

[...] there is no love, That merits such high christening, but is built Firm upon some foundation out of sight; God, country, virtue, something not ourself, To which ourself is nothing, save the proof Of its invisible sureness. Alfred Austin

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. Paracelsus

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. T. S. Eliot

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