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ourselves

/aʊəˈsɛlvz/ · pronoun

Meaning

  1. (reflexive pronoun) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
  2. We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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