Word Meanings - YOURSELF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: YOURSELF

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.

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• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• SUBJECTIST
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• SUBJECTNESS
  Quality of being subject.
• ALONENESS
  A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. Bp. Montagu.
• EMPHASIZE
  To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• PRONOUNCER
  One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• SUBJECTLESS
  Having no subject.
• MISPRONOUNCE
  To pronounce incorrectly.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• DEPREDICATE
  To proclaim; to celebrate.
• DENOMINATIVE
  Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
• ABALONE
  A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.
• INSUBJECTION
  Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.