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yourselfpron.  Brit.  /jɔːˈsɛlf/, /jʊəˈsɛlf/, /jəˈsɛlf/, U.S. /jɔrˈsɛlf/, /jʊrˈsɛlf/, /jərˈsɛlf/Forms: (Word division in Middle English examples frequently reflects editorial choices of modern editors of texts, rather than the practice of the manuscripts.) α. Middle English ȝor-self, Middle English ȝor self, Middle English ȝor silf, Middle English ȝoureself, Middle English ȝoure self, Middle English ȝoure-self, Middle English ȝoure selfe, Middle English ȝoure-selfe, Middle English ȝoure-selfen, Middle English ȝoureseluen, Middle English ȝoure-seluen, Middle English ȝoure seluen, Middle English ȝoure seluun, Middle English ȝouresilf, Middle English ȝoure silf, Middle English ȝoure-silf, Middle English ȝoure silfe, Middle English ȝoure silven, Middle English ȝourself, Middle English ȝour-self, Middle English ȝour self, Middle English ȝour-selfe, Middle English ȝour selfe, Middle English ȝourselfen, Middle English ȝour selfen, Middle English ȝour selfene, Middle English ȝour-selue, Middle English ȝour-seluen, Middle English ȝour seluen, Middle English ȝourselve, Middle English ȝoursilf, Middle English ȝour-silf, Middle English ȝour silf, Middle English ȝour silfe, Middle English ȝoursylfe, Middle English ȝouwre self, Middle English ȝowre-self, Middle English ȝowre self, Middle English ȝowre selfe, Middle English ȝowreselue, Middle English ȝowre-selue, Middle English ȝowreseluen, Middle English ȝowre-silf, Middle English ȝowr-selfe, Middle English ȝowr selffe, Middle English ȝur-self, Middle English ȝur seluen, Middle English yorselven, Middle English youre-self, Middle English youre-selfe, Middle English youreselff, Middle English youre selff, Middle English youreselffe, Middle English youre selph, Middle English youre selue, Middle English youre-seluyn (in a late copy), Middle English youreselven, Middle English youresilf, Middle English youre silf, Middle English youre-silfe, Middle English youre-sylf, Middle English youre sylf, Middle English youre-sylff, Middle English youre sylff, Middle English your-selfe, Middle English yourselffe, Middle English yourselue, Middle English your-selue, Middle English yourseluen, Middle English your-seluen, Middle English your seluen, Middle English your seluon (in a late copy), Middle English your-seluyn (in a late copy), Middle English your seluyn (in a late copy), Middle English yourselve, Middle English yourselven, Middle English your selven, Middle English yoursilff, Middle English your-silff, Middle English your-sylf, Middle English your sylf, Middle English your sylff, Middle English your syluen, Middle English yovrselfe, Middle English yowre-self, Middle English yowre self, Middle English yowreselfe, Middle English yowrsylff, Middle English 1600s yourselff, Middle English 1600s your selve, Middle English–1500s youreself, Middle English–1500s youre self, Middle English–1500s youreselfe, Middle English–1500s yowre selfe, Middle English–1500s yowr self, Middle English–1600s youre selfe, Middle English–1600s yourselfe, Middle English–1700s your-self, Middle English–1700s your self, Middle English–1700s your selfe, Middle English– yourself, 1500s youre selffe, 1500s your-selve (in print of lost Middle English MS), 1500s yowr selfe, 1500s–1600s your selff, 1500s–1600s your selffe, 1500s–1600s your selue, 1600s yovr self, 1800s– yerself (regional); English regional 1800s– yerzelf (south-western), 1800s– yurself; Scottish pre-1700 ȝoureself, pre-1700 ȝoure self, pre-1700 ȝoure-selff, pre-1700 ȝoure selff, pre-1700 ȝourself, pre-1700 ȝour-self, pre-1700 ȝour self, pre-1700 ȝourselfe, pre-1700 ȝour selfe, pre-1700 ȝourselff, pre-1700 ȝour-selff, pre-1700 ȝour selff, pre-1700 ȝour selffe, pre-1700 ȝour selue, pre-1700 ȝour selwyn, pre-1700 ȝowr self, pre-1700 yhoure-selff, pre-1700 youreself, pre-1700 youre self, pre-1700 youre selfe, pre-1700 your self, pre-1700 yourselfe, pre-1700 your selfe, pre-1700 yourselff, pre-1700 your selff, pre-1700 your selve, pre-1700 your shelf, pre-1700 1700s– yourself, 1900s– yirself. c1330 Assumption of Virgin (Auch.) l. 708 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 456 Felawes,..ȝe nolde nowt leue me, Nou ȝe mowen ȝoureseluen se, Þat ich ne gabbed nowt!1348 in C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London (1902) I. 6 Ye shall..helpe in euery place so it be not hynderyng to ȝowre selfe.a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3950 Ȝe misdon..þat arn..a quen ȝour-selue, to swiche a simpul sowdiour as icham forto knele. ▸ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 463 Ȝe buldeþ temples to ȝoure self, in þe whiche ȝe schedeþ blood.c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 863 Avoy! hit is yor vylaynye, ȝe vylen yorselven.c1450 (c1440) S. Scrope in tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (Longleat) (1904) 2 The many and grete entreprises of labouris and aventuris that ye haue embaundoned and yovyn youre selph to by many yeeris.c1475 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 39 Ȝe most noue take ȝour leue, For ȝoure seluun knauyn the cace.1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 208 I counseyll you that ye..delyver yourselfe of Reynawde assone as ye maye.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12843 But the noble Duke Nestor onon to hom said:..‘Sendis fro youre-seluyn to your syde londis.’1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 353 When yow reken yowre selfe as farre shotte as cape de las Palmas.1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered vii. 24 You accompt your selfe the Non parel for knowledge.a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 80 Stand you awhile apart,..incaue your selfe.a1678 A. Marvell Misc. Poems (1681) 47 You vain Excuses find, Which your selve and us delay.1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. ii. 5 For fear you should be brought to any thing..wicked, by being set so above your~self.1786 A. Hart Let. 8 Mar. in J. R. Marcus Early Amer. Jewry (1951) I. xii. 279 You most remain Pesah in a Jues house. Pray take care of your self and God bless you.1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases at Go on at If 'e goes on at I any moor 'e med do the job yerzelf, vor I wunt.1894 E. H. Jackson Southward Ho I. 200 I doänt see as how you've onny call to put yurself in no sich tarrible hoe.1935 G. Blake Shipbuilders ii. 40 Come on, son. Off to yer beddy-baw. Y'ell read yerself blind.1994 I. Welsh Acid House 48 She wis skint so ah gies her twenty notes and sais: You go oot doll, enjoy yirself. β. Scottish pre-1700 ȝour sel, pre-1700 ȝoursell, pre-1700 ȝour sell, pre-1700 ȝovr sell, pre-1700 ȝowr sell, pre-1700 yorsell, pre-1700 your sel, 1700s ye'rsell, 1700s–1800s yoursel', 1700s–1800s yoursell, 1700s– yersell, 1700s– yoursel, 1800s yersel', 1800s yorsel', 1800s– yersel, 1800s– yirsel, 1800s– yirsel', 1900s– yeirsell; also Irish English (northern) 1800s yeirsel, 1800s yersel', 1900s– yersel, 1900s– yoursel; English regional 1800s– yersel, 1800s– yersel', 1800s– yerzel (south-western), 1800s– yerzul (south-western), 1800s– yorsel (northern), 1800s– yorsel' (northern), 1800s– yursel, 1800s– yurzell (northern), 1900s– yorsell (northern). 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 662 Raturne agayne, ȝe sall fynd thaim ȝour sell.1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 82 Nixt lufe ȝour nichtbour, as ȝour sell.?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 366 Goe, tak the first seye of hir yorsell.1602 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Charteris) sig. N4 I never red that, thairfoir reid it ȝour sel.a1681 J. Lacy Sauny the Scott (1698) 23 Gud did ye Sir; bo Ise sea hungry, Ise ha nea Memory, Deliver your Message your sel Sir.a1779 D. Graham Coll. Writings (1883) II. 141 An' ye be a mind to marry ye maun snod yoursel better up.1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 266 Ah, Jamie lad, ye sair misken yoursel', Or thans ye wadnae tell me sic a tale.1865 B. Brierley Irkdale 195 Aw cowno see ut yo'n any occagion to knock yorsel eawt o' flunter.1891 R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland, Devonshire 30 Mind yurzell now, er he'll bush ee.1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at Aa-warn Aa-warnd, noo, ye think yorsel' clivvor?1929 Scots Mag. May 150 Ye micht think black-burnin' shame o' yirsel tae torment an auld wumman like me.1986 R. McLellan in J. Hendry Chapman 44 20 Is it yersell, Janet?1994 M. Bowman & B. Findlay Forever Yours 11 Ye must be shair ae yirsel tae risk loassin thirty cents! γ. English regional (northernand north midlands) 1800s– yarsen, 1800s– yersen, 1800s– yorsen, 1900s– yoursen. 1856 ‘T. Treddlehoyle’ Bairnsla Foaks' Ann. 12 Yo may happen find yersen sprawling it dyke bottom.1882 Leeds Loiners' Comic Olmenac 17 Te mess yarsen like that.a1897 J.P. Kirk in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 164/2 South Nottinghamshire Go and pull them fow rags off of yer, yer ugly bargest, an' dress yersen decent.1898 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 19 Mar. Come, square yorsen, it's time yo' wor off.1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 242/2 Cummon! Rax yersen! The sun's scorchin' me eyeballs out.2005 R. Bean Harvest 84 Have you ever had a go on it yersen?..Go on! You have an't yer! Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: youself pron. Etymology: Alteration of youself pron., after your pron. and myself pron., thyself pron., in which the possessive had replaced an earlier oblique case of the personal pronoun. Compare yourselves pron. and also ourself pron. Compare also self pron. 2a, 2b, 2c. The development of the singular use through the honorific plural use followed the precedent of ye pron., you pron., your pron.: compare discussion at you pron., adj., and n.Perhaps compare the irregular construction shown by Old English ēowra selfra , apparently functioning as the genitive of gē selfe (see youself pron.; the expected form ēower selfra is not attested), in which the genitive plural of the possessive adjective and self are in agreement with each other (compare B. Mitchell Old Eng. Syntax (1985) §§301, 485):eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. x. 31 Þa Gotan..for hiora hwætscipe iowra selfra anwaldes eoweres unþonces habban mehton.OE Ælfric Let. to Wulfsige (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 26 Ic bidde eow þæt ge gymon eowra sylfra. The emphatic and reflexive pronoun corresponding to you. I. With plural reference. Now replaced by yourselves. c1330 Assumption of Virgin (Auch.) l. 708 in (1885) 8 456 Felawes,..ȝe nolde nowt leue me, Nou ȝe mowen ȝoureseluen se, Þat ich ne gabbed nowt! 1348 in C. Welch (1902) I. 6 (MED) Ye shall..helpe in euery place so it be not hynderyng to ȝowre selfe. c1390 in C. Brown (1924) 144 Þe soþe ȝe may ȝor-self I-se. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif (1880) 179 Þat..her-by schulde be..worschipe to god & endeles good to ȝouwre self. c1450 (c1350) (Bodl.) (1929) l. 1095 Al þe nede and þe noy þat ȝe now suffren By asent of ȝoursilf ȝe sain þat ȝe dryen. c1540 (?a1400) 5036 All the wise how it was ye wetyn your selfe. 1567 (1897) 195 Preistis, thole to preiche, Sen ȝe ȝour self can preiche na thing. 1993 M. Kelly xi. 169 Between that and recording the symphony orchestra, you guys do it yourself. I'm through. a1400 (a1325) (Gött.) l. 16653 Ne wepe ȝe noght for me, Bot on ȝur childer and ȝur-self. c1426 J. Audelay (1931) 9 Do fore ȝoureself ore ȝe gone Or mede of God get ȝe none. c1475 (?c1400) (1842) 4 Wil ȝe not sei wiþin ȝor self we haue þe fadir Abraham. 1509 A. Barclay (Pynson) f. xxi Ye proude Galaundes that thus your selfe disgise. 1572 Abp. M. Parker Let. 19 May in (1853) (modernized text) 391 Think you, that this way you among yourself shall escape? c1600 A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 17 Judge of ȝour self by Julius my Joyes. 1949 L. Glassop iii. 37 It's about time you mugs woke up to yourself. 2005 S. Wright xviii. 251 You two seem to have enjoyed yourself. II. With singular reference, replacing thyself pron., originally as a mark of respect, deference, or formality (cf. you pron. II., your adj. 1a(b)). * Emphatic uses. 3. Used instead of the pronoun you. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 1448 For þe..loue of ȝour-selue..vowche-sauf þat his sone hire wedde. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) l. 1548 (MED) I..euer-more wylle Be seruaunt to your-seluen. 1485 (Caxton) v. ii. sig. hviiiv I fere me ye haue made a rodde for your self. c1540 (?a1400) 2327 Yff it like your Aliegiaunce, þat I, your lefe son, Be sent from your seluon. 1590 E. Spenser i. i. 53 Love of your selfe..and deare constraint, Lets me not sleepe. 1618 Sir H. Carey in S. R. Gardiner (1871) 56 I have yourself to be my noble wittness for my intyre proceedeing. 1634 W. Prynne in S. R. Gardiner (Camden) 34 This odious scandall..which I wish may not truly reflect upon your self. 1725 A. Ramsay ii. i Spoke like ye'rsell, auld birky. 1766 May 234/1 Good fortune befall Yourself, and the B-n-r-d family all. 1807 A. Seward (1811) VI. 331 On a balance of their beauty and deformity, not one of them equals yourself or Southey. 1852 D. M. Mulock iv What a strong friendship used to exist between Uncle Brian, yourself, and Anne Valery. 1940 N. Mitford iii. 57 Aristocrats are inclined to prefer Nazis while Jews prefer Bolshies. An old bourgeois like yourself..should keep your fingers out of both their pies. 1955 E. Welty 63 All of us are going on the water except yourself. 2002 D. Hagberg (2003) ix. 114 What about yourself, Mr. Director? You look as if you could use some R and R. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 1719 Ȝoure-silf was..On of þe first & most principal. 1509 S. Hawes (1845) xviii. 81 Your selfe hath caught it in so sure a net. c1540 (?a1400) 2489 Your seluyn sothely asayet haue before. 1597 W. Shakespeare ii. i. 18 Madame, your selfe are not exempt in this. View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Montagu 47 Your selfe deny this elsewhere. 1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ §13. 122 But your selfe grants..that Timothy was not yet Bishop. 1733 J. Swift 8 Conversation is but carving, Carve for all, yourself is starving. 1799 G. Washington Let. in (1893) XIV. 150 Does the Presidt. and yourself wear them? 1800 J. Austen 1 Nov. (1995) 52 The Post, & not yourself must have been unpunctual. 1863 A. Trollope II. xiii. 268 Pretty bobbish, thankee, Mr. Rowan; and how's yourself? 1913 Mar. 344/2 Mickey was just turned seven, and Terry here was toddlin' about on the floor, and yourself was in me arms no bigger than Geraldine. 1977 J. Johnston 57 ‘How's yourself?’ he asked Kathleen. 1989 Aug. 28/2 ‘Yourself will have the good job in London?’ Angus asked casually. 1998 G. Ritchie 35 The problem is, Willy, that Charlie and yourself are not the quickest of cats in the alley at the best of times. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 169 Hit is yourself that I love so well. c1540 (?a1400) 1849 Sho might haue bene mariede to more þen your selfe. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. v. 43 Is it your selfe ? View more context for this quotation 1689 Bp. G. Burnet I. 54 If I were writing to a less knowing Man than yourself. 1709 D. Manley 31 I know nothing so valuable as your self. 1784 F. Burney 22 Apr. (1842) II. 310 I am so glad of seeing your sentiments, when I cannot hear them, that your letters are only less valuable to me than yourself. 1803 G. Colman iv. i. 52 Och, and is it yourself I see, at last? 1847 R. S. Surtees xii. 242 ‘Why, what a mess you're in, Beaney!’.. ‘Am I?.. I can't be much worse than yourself; look at your breeches!’ 1896 M. Beaumont x It's yourself, Sweetheart, it's yourself I think most of now. 1907 J. M. Synge ii. 32 And it's yourself is wedding her, Michael Byrne? 1970 N. Marsh iv. 92 The monk..spoke with a superb brogue... ‘Ah, it's yourself again,’ he said. 2002 R. Murphy (2003) 309 I declare to God, Tony, no one would live in a place like this—only an Englishman such as yourself. 4. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) l. 350 Þaȝ ȝe ȝour-self be talenttyf, to take hit to your-seluen. 1447 O. Bokenham (Arun.) (1938) 1290 (MED) Me thynkith best were, saf youre reuerence, That ye youreself to hym dede appere. c1540 (?a1400) 3309 And ye sothely, your selfe,..Shal be worshipped worthely. a1556 N. Udall (?1566) iii. v. sig. F.ij If it were an other but thou, it were a knaue. M. Mery. Ye are an other your selfe, sir. 1609 W. Shakespeare xiii. sig. B3v You are No longer yours, then you your selfe here liue. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. i. 140 Henceforth, carry your letters youre selfe . View more context for this quotation 1675 T. Shadwell 8 Blame not the passion you yourself create. 1707 J. Freind 211 You will hardly believe your self, what this Letter informs you of. 1749 H. Fielding II. vi. ii. 233 Suppose she should have fixed on the very Person whom you yourself would wish. View more context for this quotation 1819 5 710 You yourself, my fair Mrs. McWhirter, were the seducee, and the ensign the seducer. 1859 H. Kingsley xxvii. 268 I hope I may see you happily married yourself some of these days. 1890 F. C. Burnand 103 You certainly gave me to understand you had been there yourself. 1919 Nov. 358/1 ‘You tell her, McGeehan,’ said One Eye. ‘Tell her yourself,’ McGeehan flung back. 1969 J. Singer et al. tr. I. B. Singer i. x. 136 I remember when you yourself stepped on others. 1993 C. MacDougall 137 ‘Your house is lovely,’ Margaret told Granny. ‘Did you get it done up or did you do it yourself?’ 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton III. iv. 54 ‘Nonsense!’ said MacGrawler..‘Nonsense yourself!’ cried Ned. 1897 H. G. Wells 214 William came up beside her and said, ‘Hello!’ ‘Hello yourself!’ she said. 1907 G. B. Shaw iii. 75 Hodson... Dont you be taken in by my ole man, Paddy. Matthew... Paddy yourself! How dar you call me Paddy? 1944 S. Bellow 39 ‘Minna,’ I said, ‘Minna yourself!’ 1990 N. Hill (1992) v. 56 ‘Och, Mrs D, you're mad, now don't be singing.’..‘Och yourself! Never worry. I'll sing whatever I like.’ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > your (true) being or personality c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 643 This warne I yow þt ye nat sodeynly Out of your self for no wo sholde outraye Beth pacient. 1590 E. Spenser i. viii. sig. H3v What euill starre On you hath frownd,..That of your selfe ye thus berobbed arre. 1609 W. Shakespeare xiii. sig. B3v O that you were your selfe . View more context for this quotation a1646 J. Burroughs (1668) ii. 55 You may know when you are your self, by examining your heart, how it works most naturally when you are from under government. 1740 S. Richardson I. ii. 5 For fear you should be brought to any thing..wicked, by being set so above your~self. 1749 H. Fielding II. vi. v. 257 ‘Dear Aunt, you frighten me out of my Senses.’ ‘O, my Dear,..you will soon come to yourself again.’ View more context for this quotation 1841 C. Dickens xxii. 57 Now, an't you the better for it, mim? Don't you feel more yourself than you would have done if you'd have stopped at home? 1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ viii ‘Now you look like yourself’, she said fondly. 1933 P. Grainger Let. 26 Apr. in (1994) 115 I naturally wish you to be entirely personal (wholly yourself) in your estimate and criticism of my music and work. 1986 ‘W. Trevor’ 246 She nodded and then, to his astonishment, she spoke of his simplicity... ‘Simplicity?’ he said. ‘Are you feeling yourself?’ 2008 T. French ii. 48 You've not been yourself since that business last year. ** Reflexive uses. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) l. 350 Þaȝ ȝe ȝour-self be talenttyf, to take hit to your-seluen. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Vitell.) l. 3759 To occupye your sylff alway. 1533 Bp. S. Gardiner 13 June (1933) 53 Ye shewed yourself glad that I should be pryve to their sutes with youe. 1569 R. Grafton II. 102 Least that by the doyng the contrary, you bring your selfe into such a pecke of troubles. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. v. 75 Good Madam keepe your selfe within your selfe. View more context for this quotation 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. i, in I. 5 Nor would I, you should melt away your selfe In flashing brauerie. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus viii. 127 'Twas well you bethought your self before you were in for good and all. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu 1 Apr. (1965) I. 338 I am going to tell you a thing that..will make you wish your selfe here. 1778 F. Burney II. ii. 14 You needn't trouble yourself to make a ninny of me, neither. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage I. iii. iii. 346 If you have management enough to worm yourself into his confidence. 1865 ‘L. Carroll’ ix. 135 Pray don't trouble yourself. 1882 ‘E. Lyall’ xix You'll do for yourself one of these days. 1916 W. S. Churchill Let. 28 Mar. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill (1999) viii. 196 Do take care of yourself. 1922 J. Joyce ii. 526 Here, to buy yourself a gin and splash. 1952 W. S. Burroughs 22 Apr. (1993) 120 But when they ask me to write a ‘biographical sketch’ I feel like a personnel manager just said, ‘Tell me about yourself.’ 1982 S. Grafton 220 I set my wineglass on the table and grabbed up my purse. ‘Fuck off... Just go fuck yourself.’ 2004 43/3 Treat yourself to a manicure. *** Emphatic or reflexive uses. a1568 R. Ascham (1570) ii. f. 31 For translating, vse you your selfe..to chose out, some Epistle..of Tullie. 1639 J. Saltmarsh 275 How to enfavour yourself with those you discourse with. 1669 S. Sturmy ii. iii. 56 Here is a Table of Latitudes..and the way to calculate it your self. 1712 R. Steele No. 546. ⁋1 It gives me very great Scandal to observe, where-ever I go, how much Skill, in buying all manner of goods, there is necessary to defend yourself from being cheated. 1785 J. Wesley (1872) XIII. 95 Miss Cooke leans to the right-hand error—It is safer to think too little than too much of yourself. 1806 J. Beresford I. vi. 131 You find yourself suddenly viced in, from the shoulder to the hip. 1881 Apr. 97 Our friend learned that one of the secrets of their success was picking the line of country quickly yourself. 1918 2 May 207/2 The monkey..has a rule that everything which cannot be eaten must be used to scratch yourself with. 1991 G. Burn (1992) ii. 25 Read them and you find yourself looking for the tell-tale white wart of Tipp-ex. 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