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English
Etymology
From Middle English. Equivalent to us + -self.
Pronoun
usself (first-person plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)
- (obsolete or dialect) ourselves
References
Middle English
Pronoun
usself
- ourselves
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parson's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, section 19, line 349:
And therfore seith Seint Iohn the Evaungelist: ‘if that we seyn that we beth with-oute sinne, we deceyve us-selve, and trouthe is nat in us.’- And therefore says Saint John the Evangelist: ‘If we say that we are without sin, we deceive ourselves, and truth is not in us.’
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