单词 | ownself |
释义 | ownselfpron. Now chiefly regional (esp. U.S. (southern) and Caribbean). With preceding possessive adjective (in early use also with pronoun in the objective case), forming a phrase equivalent to a pronoun ending in -self or -selves.My own self, our own selves, etc., are used both emphatically, in apposition to, or (occasionally) in the place of, a personal pronoun (cf. myself pron. 1 – 3, ourselves pron. 1, 2, etc.) and reflexively (cf. myself pron. 5, ourselves pron. 3, etc.).This construction is to be distinguished from other phrases with possessive followed by own self in which self functions as the noun head. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > one's, etc., self myselfeOE onec1175 persona1382 ownselfa1400 personage1531 his (also her, my) watch?1536 manself1880 his jills1906 ass1916 fanny1916 a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) 680 (MED) Ouþer coude he weyl saue, But now hym owne self may he nat saue. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2301 (MED) I hope þat þi hert arȝe wyth þyn awen seluen. a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) l. 577 (MED) Oure awn self we sal deny. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 325 (MED) He wilfulli her bounde hym owne selfe, to hem beinge present..to þe foreseide graunt. c1500 Melusine (1895) xix. 63 Oure wylle is that ye your owneself shall as right is gyve name to it. ?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. F.v Than why shuld ye other more/than thyne own self fere? c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 276 Argus..made vp a mekyll ship..Þat after hym awne selfe Argon was cald. 1595 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (new ed.) ii. sig. Dd1 Your owne selfe doe know, that both he and the rest, were to me knowne before time. a1634 T. Gerard Particular Descr. Somerset (1900) 26 Hated of all, and hateful to their kinred and ownselves. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. ii. 14 You may be ashamed of your ownself, to disturb People at this Time of Night. View more context for this quotation 1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. 193 They..are wonderfu' surprised, no doubt, to see no crowd gathering, binna a wheen o' the town bairns, that had come out to look at their ainsells. 1854 W. H. Brisbane in J. Griffiths Autogr. for Freedom 121 A righteousness which will be seen and recognized by our ownselves and others as a righteousness derived from Christ. 1891 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 459/1 Who they tryin' tu fool,—God amighty, or folks, or the' ownselves? 1916 T. W. Paterson Wyse-sayin's xvi. 32 Better the man wha rules weel his ainsel, Than the neibour wha taks a hale toon aneth his chairge. 1942 Z. N. Hurston Dust Tracks on Road xii. 244 You know your ownself how looking backwards slows people up. 1963 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. iv. 348 [Q]uestion. After very heavy rains a river becomes swollen, and so you say the river is... [Lancashire] ɩt flɷdz ɩt ɔ:nsɛl it floods its ownself. 1980 A. Walker Color Purple 20 I feel like I want to talk about her my own self. 1993 H. N. Thomas Spirits in Dark xiv. 169 Reverend Lawrence baptize the child his ownself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < pron.a1400 |
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