herspron.¹adj.

Brit.

/həːz/, U.S.

/hərz/

Forms: Middle English heeris, Middle English heerys, Middle English heores (south-western), Middle English hereys, Middle English heris, Middle English heroes (transmission error), Middle English hires, Middle English hiris, Middle English hures (south-western), Middle English hyres, Middle English hyrres, Middle English–1500s heres, Middle English–1500s hirres, Middle English–1500s hyrs, Middle English–1600s hirs, Middle English– hers, 1500s herse, 1500s–1700s (1800s– nonstandard) her's, 1800s– ers (English regional), 1900s– huz (U.S. regional); also Scottish pre-1700 hieris, pre-1700 hiris, pre-1700 hirris, pre-1700 hirs, pre-1700 hyrris.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymon: her pron.³

Etymology: < her pron.³ + genitive ending -s; compare yours pron., ours pron., hers pron.², theirs pron. Compare hern pron.²Earlier currency of the adjective is perhaps shown by the following isolated example (although it is probably more likely to represent a scribal error):c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2531 Vrnen ire teares ouer hires [c1300 Otho hire] leores.

A. pron.¹ The possessive pronoun corresponding to her adj.²

1. Predicatively: that which belongs to her.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > that which is one's own > that which is mine, ours, his, hers, or yours

oureOE

hisOE

mineOE

thineOE

hernc1230

hersa1250

ourna1382

yourna1382

oursa1400

his'nc1425

yours1526

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 2 Al is hires [c1230 Corpus Cambr. hiren, a1250 Nero hire] þat hali chirche singes oðer redes.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxxix. 16 She is maad hard to hir sones, as thoȝ thei be not hiris.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20016 (MED) Hirs [a1400 Fairf. hiris, a1400 Trin. Cambr. hiren] am i wit [= with] all þat i can.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 129 I moot ben hires [c1425 Petworth hers; c1415 Lansd. hirs] I may noon oother chese.

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 464 Shee was forced to confesse her's was the fault.

1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. l. 251 Remember that your grandfather never designed this estate for Laurana. It was only to be provisionally hers.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 611/2 The married sister enjoys every sort of liberty; the whole family fortune is hers, and she spends it as she pleases.

1842 E. Miall Nonconformist's Sketch-bk. App. 283 They must be hers of her own right.

1918 A. MacLeish Let. 30 Jan. (1983) 44 I trust her entirely to use whatever is hers for the wise up-bringing of our son.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Oct. 34/1 About fifty of the pictures are hers, including two portraits, of Darwin's finches and of blue-footed boobies.

a. of hers: that is (or are) hers; belonging to her (see of prep. 32). N.E.D. (1898) included quot. a1387 at hero n. 1, misinterpreting it as showing ‘verse of heroes, the hexameter’ (cf. heroic adj. 2a).

ΚΠ

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 401 Sibille Eritria..wroot moche of Criste..as in þis vers of heroes [c1400 Tiber. heores; L. ejus].

1478 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 613 Aftyr the dyssease of a steppe-modyr of hyrs.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cccxxi^v/2 This lady..buryed them secretely in a felde of heerys.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 591 Cicero..maketh mention of Sibils Acrosticke , that is to say, of certeyne verses of hirs whose first letters made the name of that King.

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §293 302 These her eleemosinary acts of hers are almost vanished.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 244 Her Fondness for a Spark of hers was scurvily interpreted.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 378 Johnson: She is the first woman in the world could she but restrain that wicked tongue of hers.

1826 Lit. Lounger July 305 People may say what they please, but that book of hers is a dreadful show up.

1866 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 3 Nov. 3/1 A friend of hers, another ‘moll’, got an inkling of the ‘stake’ that had been made, and wanted a ‘rake’.

1911 J. M. Barrie Peter & Wendy vii. 113 It was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do.

2000 G. Lucas Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace 119 We are sending all available troops to meet this army of hers assembling near the swamp.

b. Those who are hers; esp. those to whom she is closely related, her family or kindred. Frequently in her (also she) and hers.

ΚΠ

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxix [She] registered her selfe and hers, as persones there priuileged.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 102^v Shee and hers fell at square, which discord..brake forth into a blow.

1710 E. Freke Diary 11 Sept. in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1912) 18 95 I had pinched myselfe for these several yeares In these several sums to serve her & hers by these guifts.

1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth (1862) II. xx. 217 Therefore, Denys, tell his mother I have got a letter, and if she and hers would hear it, I am their servant.

1993 V. Milan From Depths xvii. 193 He could not fathom how this young woman..could not want vengeance on those who had aggressed against her and hers.

c. British colloquial. Her home, her house, ‘her place’. Cf. mine pron. 3d.

ΚΠ

1933 Manch. Guardian 10 Apr. 16/1 That woman stood up there be herself an' never said a word. I heerd Mrs. Smallbone goo up to her wunnerful hearty an' ast her to come back to hers f'r a mouthful o' wittles.

1955 B. W. Aldiss Brightfount Diaries 59 Having seen nothing of Avril all week I went round to hers.

1974 A. Oakley Housewife vi. 108 I've just met another friend and I've been round to hers twice this week.

1981 C. Blackwood Fate of Mary Rose 41 I never went round to hers. When I woke in the morning, I woke in a place where I wanted to be.

1994 I. Welsh Acid House 235 We went back to hers and I lay on the couch, strung out.

2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 143 We pretended we were up for it because we wanted Maureen to have a break, but really it was because we didn't want to go round hers all the time.

3. Equivalent to her with a noun supplied from the context. Frequently paired or contrasted with another possessive.

ΚΠ

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 8608 (MED) Fra hir fere sch[o] stal hir barn, And laid bi hir hirs [Trin. Cambr. And leide hiren þere] so for-farn.

a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 1 To oure lordys wurschip and his holy moderes and hyres.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 59 As mine on hers, so hers likewise on mine.

1658 R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 50 I could wish my soul with hers, at any time, but not my Body.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. ii. 9 He was more solicitous to cultivate her mamma's good opinion, than hers!

1798 T. Jefferson Let. 6 June in Papers (2003) XXX. 390 She played on it [sc. a harpsichord] and pronounces it a very fine one, though without some of the advantages of hers, as the Celestine for instance.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxx. 299 Then Caddy hung upon her father, and nursed his cheek against hers as if he were some poor dull child in pain.

1882 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Aug. 123/2 His eyes, looking eagerly, almost fiercely, into hers.

1919 Railroad Telegrapher June 770/1 Marwin raised his eyes suddenly to hers, and there was a supplication in them.

2005 Z. Smith On Beauty 73 Man, she's got my Discman, my music—she must have picked it up by mistake. See, I got hers.

B. adj.

As the first of two or more possessives modifying a following noun: = her adj.² 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > owning > [adjective] > own > his, her, its, or their > his or her

hereOE

hiseOE

hers1555

himsc1700

him1780

he1833

his'n1895

1555 J. Rogers Confession in J. L. Chester John Rogers (1861) 305 Yf I dye, to be good to my poore wyfe, beynge a straunger, & all my litle sowles, hers & my children.

1562 Safe Conduct Queen of Scots in S. Haynes Coll. State Papers Ld. Burghley (1740) 390 To departe and returne, at hers and their Pleasures, without any manner of Let, Impechement or Arrest.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 186 Hers, and mine Adultery.

1707 in London Gaz. No. 4356/2 Her Majesty..is very sensible of their Zeal for Her's and the Publick Service.

1811 tr. Marquise de Sévigné Lett. (new ed.) IX. dcdlxxv. 61 We..found my daughter-in-law in complete masquerade in the midst of hers and our servants, who were also in masquerade.

1902 Monthly Rev. Apr. 111 When..they marry Amelia, they inevitably see through her, and snub her for the sake of hers and their child.

1999 K. O'Sullivan Under Eyes of Galtees vii. 52 Mother went to the dresser and got out dad's, hers and my rosary beads.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† herspron.²

Forms: Middle English heoris, Middle English heres, Middle English heris, Middle English herres, Middle English hers, Middle English herys, Middle English heyres, Middle English hires, Middle English hirs, Middle English hores, Middle English horres, Middle English hors, Middle English hures, Middle English hvres.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymon: her pron.¹

Etymology: < her pron.¹ + genitive ending -s; compare yours pron., ours pron., theirs pron., hers pron.¹ Compare hern pron.¹Compare also Old English heores , heoras , early Middle English heoræs , hares , genitive forms of her adj.¹ (see discussion at that entry).

Obsolete.

= theirs pron.

ΚΠ

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 14 Godd almihti beah to mon, to a smið & to a wummon, & folhede ham as hores hwider as ha walden.

c1250 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr.) in K. Reichl Relig. Dichtung im Eng. Hochmittelalter (1973) 21 Þan sal men hare dedis cnoue, I min and he heres [altered to hvres].

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 417 The Grees grauntede pees to..Antenor, to Eneas, to Polydamas, and to alle hires [?a1475 anon. tr. to alle theire men].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 22578 And þo to hores [Fairf. heris] vche a burne.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2507 Þei helde heres [Vesp. þairs, Fairf. þaires] was þe lond For þei hadde þe ouer hond.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 397 If y..consente not for me and my successours in my name and heris for to fulfille..thilk trust.

c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd Three Treat. J. Wycklyffe (1851) p. cxxxiii Crist forsoke his wille; þei seken hers be it riȝt or wronge.

c1475 (a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 300 Pore men..þat hauen greet neede for hem & heoris.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin (1899) x. 145 Thei loste all here harneyse of hirs and of her mayne.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	hers
释义	herspron.¹adj. Brit. /həːz/, U.S. /hərz/ Forms: Middle English heeris, Middle English heerys, Middle English heores (south-western), Middle English hereys, Middle English heris, Middle English heroes (transmission error), Middle English hires, Middle English hiris, Middle English hures (south-western), Middle English hyres, Middle English hyrres, Middle English–1500s heres, Middle English–1500s hirres, Middle English–1500s hyrs, Middle English–1600s hirs, Middle English– hers, 1500s herse, 1500s–1700s (1800s– nonstandard) her's, 1800s– ers (English regional), 1900s– huz (U.S. regional); also Scottish pre-1700 hieris, pre-1700 hiris, pre-1700 hirris, pre-1700 hirs, pre-1700 hyrris. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymon: her pron.³ Etymology: < her pron.³ + genitive ending -s; compare yours pron., ours pron., hers pron.², theirs pron. Compare hern pron.²Earlier currency of the adjective is perhaps shown by the following isolated example (although it is probably more likely to represent a scribal error):c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2531 Vrnen ire teares ouer hires [c1300 Otho hire] leores. A. pron.¹ The possessive pronoun corresponding to her adj.² 1. Predicatively: that which belongs to her. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > that which is one's own > that which is mine, ours, his, hers, or yours oureOE hisOE mineOE thineOE hernc1230 hersa1250 ourna1382 yourna1382 oursa1400 his'nc1425 yours1526 a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 2 Al is hires [c1230 Corpus Cambr. hiren, a1250 Nero hire] þat hali chirche singes oðer redes. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxxix. 16 She is maad hard to hir sones, as thoȝ thei be not hiris. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20016 (MED) Hirs [a1400 Fairf. hiris, a1400 Trin. Cambr. hiren] am i wit [= with] all þat i can. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 129 I moot ben hires [c1425 Petworth hers; c1415 Lansd. hirs] I may noon oother chese. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 464 Shee was forced to confesse her's was the fault. 1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. l. 251 Remember that your grandfather never designed this estate for Laurana. It was only to be provisionally hers. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 611/2 The married sister enjoys every sort of liberty; the whole family fortune is hers, and she spends it as she pleases. 1842 E. Miall Nonconformist's Sketch-bk. App. 283 They must be hers of her own right. 1918 A. MacLeish Let. 30 Jan. (1983) 44 I trust her entirely to use whatever is hers for the wise up-bringing of our son. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Oct. 34/1 About fifty of the pictures are hers, including two portraits, of Darwin's finches and of blue-footed boobies. 2. a. of hers: that is (or are) hers; belonging to her (see of prep. 32). N.E.D. (1898) included quot. a1387 at hero n. 1, misinterpreting it as showing ‘verse of heroes, the hexameter’ (cf. heroic adj. 2a). ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 401 Sibille Eritria..wroot moche of Criste..as in þis vers of heroes [c1400 Tiber. heores; L. ejus]. 1478 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 613 Aftyr the dyssease of a steppe-modyr of hyrs. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cccxxi^v/2 This lady..buryed them secretely in a felde of heerys. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 591 Cicero..maketh mention of Sibils Acrosticke , that is to say, of certeyne verses of hirs whose first letters made the name of that King. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §293 302 These her eleemosinary acts of hers are almost vanished. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 244 Her Fondness for a Spark of hers was scurvily interpreted. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 378 Johnson: She is the first woman in the world could she but restrain that wicked tongue of hers. 1826 Lit. Lounger July 305 People may say what they please, but that book of hers is a dreadful show up. 1866 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 3 Nov. 3/1 A friend of hers, another ‘moll’, got an inkling of the ‘stake’ that had been made, and wanted a ‘rake’. 1911 J. M. Barrie Peter & Wendy vii. 113 It was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do. 2000 G. Lucas Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace 119 We are sending all available troops to meet this army of hers assembling near the swamp. b. Those who are hers; esp. those to whom she is closely related, her family or kindred. Frequently in her (also she) and hers. ΚΠ 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxix [She] registered her selfe and hers, as persones there priuileged. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 102^v Shee and hers fell at square, which discord..brake forth into a blow. 1710 E. Freke Diary 11 Sept. in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1912) 18 95 I had pinched myselfe for these several yeares In these several sums to serve her & hers by these guifts. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth (1862) II. xx. 217 Therefore, Denys, tell his mother I have got a letter, and if she and hers would hear it, I am their servant. 1993 V. Milan From Depths xvii. 193 He could not fathom how this young woman..could not want vengeance on those who had aggressed against her and hers. c. British colloquial. Her home, her house, ‘her place’. Cf. mine pron. 3d. ΚΠ 1933 Manch. Guardian 10 Apr. 16/1 That woman stood up there be herself an' never said a word. I heerd Mrs. Smallbone goo up to her wunnerful hearty an' ast her to come back to hers f'r a mouthful o' wittles. 1955 B. W. Aldiss Brightfount Diaries 59 Having seen nothing of Avril all week I went round to hers. 1974 A. Oakley Housewife vi. 108 I've just met another friend and I've been round to hers twice this week. 1981 C. Blackwood Fate of Mary Rose 41 I never went round to hers. When I woke in the morning, I woke in a place where I wanted to be. 1994 I. Welsh Acid House 235 We went back to hers and I lay on the couch, strung out. 2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 143 We pretended we were up for it because we wanted Maureen to have a break, but really it was because we didn't want to go round hers all the time. 3. Equivalent to her with a noun supplied from the context. Frequently paired or contrasted with another possessive. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 8608 (MED) Fra hir fere sch[o] stal hir barn, And laid bi hir hirs [Trin. Cambr. And leide hiren þere] so for-farn. a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 1 To oure lordys wurschip and his holy moderes and hyres. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 59 As mine on hers, so hers likewise on mine. View more context for this quotation 1658 R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 50 I could wish my soul with hers, at any time, but not my Body. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. ii. 9 He was more solicitous to cultivate her mamma's good opinion, than hers! 1798 T. Jefferson Let. 6 June in Papers (2003) XXX. 390 She played on it [sc. a harpsichord] and pronounces it a very fine one, though without some of the advantages of hers, as the Celestine for instance. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxx. 299 Then Caddy hung upon her father, and nursed his cheek against hers as if he were some poor dull child in pain. 1882 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Aug. 123/2 His eyes, looking eagerly, almost fiercely, into hers. 1919 Railroad Telegrapher June 770/1 Marwin raised his eyes suddenly to hers, and there was a supplication in them. 2005 Z. Smith On Beauty 73 Man, she's got my Discman, my music—she must have picked it up by mistake. See, I got hers. B. adj. As the first of two or more possessives modifying a following noun: = her adj.² 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > [adjective] > own > his, her, its, or their > his or her hereOE hiseOE hers1555 himsc1700 him1780 he1833 his'n1895 1555 J. Rogers Confession in J. L. Chester John Rogers (1861) 305 Yf I dye, to be good to my poore wyfe, beynge a straunger, & all my litle sowles, hers & my children. 1562 Safe Conduct Queen of Scots in S. Haynes Coll. State Papers Ld. Burghley (1740) 390 To departe and returne, at hers and their Pleasures, without any manner of Let, Impechement or Arrest. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 186 Hers, and mine Adultery. View more context for this quotation 1707 in London Gaz. No. 4356/2 Her Majesty..is very sensible of their Zeal for Her's and the Publick Service. 1811 tr. Marquise de Sévigné Lett. (new ed.) IX. dcdlxxv. 61 We..found my daughter-in-law in complete masquerade in the midst of hers and our servants, who were also in masquerade. 1902 Monthly Rev. Apr. 111 When..they marry Amelia, they inevitably see through her, and snub her for the sake of hers and their child. 1999 K. O'Sullivan Under Eyes of Galtees vii. 52 Mother went to the dresser and got out dad's, hers and my rosary beads. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † herspron.² Forms: Middle English heoris, Middle English heres, Middle English heris, Middle English herres, Middle English hers, Middle English herys, Middle English heyres, Middle English hires, Middle English hirs, Middle English hores, Middle English horres, Middle English hors, Middle English hures, Middle English hvres. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymon: her pron.¹ Etymology: < her pron.¹ + genitive ending -s; compare yours pron., ours pron., theirs pron., hers pron.¹ Compare hern pron.¹Compare also Old English heores , heoras , early Middle English heoræs , hares , genitive forms of her adj.¹ (see discussion at that entry). Obsolete. = theirs pron. ΚΠ a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 14 Godd almihti beah to mon, to a smið & to a wummon, & folhede ham as hores hwider as ha walden. c1250 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr.) in K. Reichl Relig. Dichtung im Eng. Hochmittelalter (1973) 21 Þan sal men hare dedis cnoue, I min and he heres [altered to hvres]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 417 The Grees grauntede pees to..Antenor, to Eneas, to Polydamas, and to alle hires [?a1475 anon. tr. to alle theire men]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 22578 And þo to hores [Fairf. heris] vche a burne. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2507 Þei helde heres [Vesp. þairs, Fairf. þaires] was þe lond For þei hadde þe ouer hond. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 397 If y..consente not for me and my successours in my name and heris for to fulfille..thilk trust. c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd Three Treat. J. Wycklyffe (1851) p. cxxxiii Crist forsoke his wille; þei seken hers be it riȝt or wronge. c1475 (a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 300 Pore men..þat hauen greet neede for hem & heoris. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin (1899) x. 145 Thei loste all here harneyse of hirs and of her mayne. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < pron.¹adj.a1250pron.²a1250
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herspron.1adj.

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herspron.¹adj.

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