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English
Etymology
per (from person) + -self (like himself, herself, etc.)
Pronunciation
- enPR: pərˈself
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
- Hyphenation: per‧self
Pronoun
perself
- (reflexive, rare, nonstandard) Per, themself; gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of per.
- Per injured perself.
1996 February 22, Susan Groppi, “These messages make me so sad...”, in alt.adoption (Usenet):I can't comment on the original poster's motivations, but I do know that some agencies (mine, for instance) will not release any information until the adoptee is 18, and then the adoptee perself has to request the information.
1996 December 6, Suki L. McDonough, “What's Up?”, in soc.women.lesbian-and-bi (Usenet):My hit on the comment was that she was saying that a person on a newsgroup could choose *not* to publicly identify as a member of a visually identifiable minority which is subject to oppression, and therefore spend some time not having to have such oppression directed at perself as an individual (although obviously such a person would still be subject to "ist" postings which aim at the oppressed group in general).
1997 April 22, Anthony and Joy Hilbert, “ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):The person who called perself a dom, but then breached a safeword or did something similarly non-consensual.
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