thineself

English

Etymology

From thine +‎ -self.

Pronoun

thineself

1. Synonym of thyself
   • 1794, “Moral Sentences and Maxims”, in Exercises, Instructive and Entertaining, in False English; , the fifth edition, Leeds: John Binns;  , page 3:

     Accoſtom thineſelf toe do wel on hall occaſions.

   • 1795, Rudiments of Constructive Etymology and Syntax, London: T. Knott, G. Nicholson, , section IV, page 138:

     In these manner accustom thineself to breathe freely and imperceptibly, as thee proceeds.

   • 1867, S E. D. Smith, quoting James Levi Pfluger, edited by John Little, The Soldier’s Friend; Being a Thrilling Narrative of Grandma Smith’s Four Years’ Experience and Observation, as Matron, in the Hospitals of the South, During the Late Disastrous Conflict in America, Memphis, Tenn.: the Bulletin Publishing Company, page 283:

     Thou wilt thineself no doubt deny / The soldiers’ wants to supply.

   • 1888 October 21, Cook, “Correspondence”, in Union Pacific Employes’ Magazine, volume III, number 10, published November 1888, page 317, column 2:

     Teach in thine own household what you would have others do to thineself.

   • 1889, “Invectives Against a French Physician”, in T. C. Minor, transl., The Evil that has been said of Doctors: Extracts from Early Writers, Cincinnati, Ohio: Lancet-Clinic, collation of Le mal qu’on a dit des médecins by S. J. Witkoski , chapter XVII, pages 52–53:

     Go, carrion thineself among the tombs; go and ordure thineself in other filthy things and leave true philosophy to real philosophers. Thou believest thineself to be a philosopher; do not deceive thineself.

   • 1893, “Miscellaneous”, in List of Duplicates in Michigan State Library for Sale or Exchange, page 6:

     Beecher, Rev. Thos., Let Another Man Praise Thee, Not Thineself.

   • 1895 April 25, W. A. Toombs, “Chronicles”, in The Bee‎, sixth year, number 17, Earlington, Ken., column 5:

     “Art not thou fully ashamed of thineself, being fully sufficient to make a horse snort.

   • 1900 November 5, “Disgusted by Dockery. Thousand Left Kansas City Hall When He Began to Speak. ”, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 26, number 170, St. Louis, Mo., section “Dockery Incident”, page 2, column 3:

     They well knew that his unalterable rule in public life was “never commit thineself, lest it be your undoing.”

   • 1902, Light, page 145, column 2:

     When thou dost feel anger (a quality of the lower man) boiling up within thy soul’s casket, quickly turn and throw thineself upon the breast of silence.

   • 1902 October 26, Paul Lambeth, “A Continuous Performance Theatre is Started. Aristocracy in Business. ”, in The Times, volume 17, number 229, Richmond, Va., section “For School Use”, page 25, columns 1–2:

     Thou shalt honor good men and true women, esteeming everybody the same as thineself and bow the knee before none.

   • 1909 July 22, Ida Clifton Hinshaw, “Prayer”, in The Union Republican, volume XXXVIII, number 29, Winston-Salem, N.C., page one, column 1:

     Prayer is giving, utterly, lavishly—thineself—all, / Prayer is Heaven’s gate unlocked at a sinner’s call.

   • 1913 January 2, Meis Clothing Co., “…The Ten Commandments… (Businessfied)”, in The Helena Star‎, volume 7, number 52, Helena, Okla.:

     Thou shalt not steal from thineself, by paying others too much for clothes.

   • 1914, Blue and White, page 71:

     Thy matriculation requirements are that thou shalt conduct thineself with an humble spirit.

   • 1914, Happy Days: A Paper for Young and Old, page 10:

     Hie thineself hither.

   • 1915 December 9, “Local Items”, in Canadian Valley Record‎, volume XI, Canton, Okla., column 3:

     Yea, Pauline, it behooveth thee to examine thineself closely, e’en as the time for New Year resolutions draweth nigh.

   • 1917 March 22, Blue Ribbon Laundry, “Inform Thineself”, in Montgomery Times, Montgomery, Ala., page eight:

     Inform Thineself / Not only in matters etherial, but worldly as well.

   • 1919 November 12, Jack Lait, “In the Wake of the News”, in The Illustrated Daily News, number 120, New York, N.Y., page 5, column 2:

     IF thou, Jack Lait, Knight of the Cap and Bells, wouldst bring back a smile to the anguished faces of the multitude, and still for a time the tongues that clacque in the lantern jaws of the arid few who would build an ark at the approach of a sandstorm; then lend an ear, lad, like a true knight, and prove thineself worthy of thine sires.

   • 1922, Champat Rai Jain, “Mythology”, in Confluence of Opposites, 3rd edition, page 265:

     When thou hast to leave the world, why dost thou tie thineself to its concerns?

   • 1923 January, Henry J. Pulver, “Views and Reviews”, in The Silent Worker: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine For, By and About the Deaf of the English-Reading World, volume 35, number 4, Trenton, N.J., page 144, column 2:

     Mayhap, thou dost know a damsel in Pawtucket whom thou dost deem passing fair, and whom thou fain wouldst hitch to thineself.

   • 1923 April 27, Hugh S. Fullerton, “The Ten Commandments of Sports”, in The Benson Times, volume 20, number 17, Omaha, Neb., page 3, column 2:

     Thou shalt not underestimate thine opponent nor over-estimate thineself.

   • 1951 December 6, “Music, Art Groups To Sponsor Concert, Bazaar On Tuesday”, in The South Side Times, volume XXX, number 12, Fort Wayne, Ind., page one, column 1:

     Last on the program will be the Concert Band playing a march, “The Pride of the Wolverines” by Sousa; two chorales by Bach which include “Soul, Array Thineself with Gladness” and “O, Sacred Head Now Wounded” by the Brass Section; “A Christmas Festival” by Anderson; and “Joshua” by Yoder.

   • 2003 June 22, Bill Brownstein, “OK, I’m seduced – this is Nirvana. Wait, it’s Montreal?”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page B1:

     For starters, if you’re going to pig out here, you’d best be able to heal thineself, or pack a personal physician in your carry-on luggage.

Usage notes

• May be incorrect; first attested only in 1794 (in intentionally incorrect English), long after thou had become archaic.

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