yourself Meaning, Definition & Usage

Your*self" pronoun

Etymology

Your + self.

Wordforms

plural Yourselves

Definitions

1. An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself.

   Of which right now ye han yourselve heard. Chaucer.

   If yourselves are old, make it your cause. Shak.

   Why should you be so cruel to yourself ? Milton.

   The religious movement which you yourself, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to last. J. H. Newman.