yourselvespron.

Brit.

/jɔːˈsɛlvz/,

/jʊəˈsɛlvz/,

/jəˈsɛlvz/, U.S.

/jɔrˈsɛlvz/,

/jʊrˈsɛlvz/,

/jərˈsɛlvz/

Forms:

α. 1500s youre selues, 1500s yourselfes, 1500s yourselues, 1500s yovre selves, 1500s–1600s youre selves, 1500s–1600s your selfes, 1500s–1700s your selues, 1500s–1700s your selves, 1500s– yourselves; Scottish pre-1700 ȝoure selfis, pre-1700 ȝourselffis, pre-1700 ȝourselfis, pre-1700 ȝour selfis, pre-1700 yourselffs, pre-1700 yourselfs, pre-1700 your selues, pre-1700 1700s– yourselves.

β. English regional 1800s yerzuls (Devon), 1800s– yersels (chiefly northern), 1800s– yerzels (Devon), 1900s– yoursels (north midlands and northern); Scottish pre-1700 ȝour sells, pre-1700 your sells, 1700s–1800s yoursells, 1700s– yoursels, 1800s– yersels, 1800s– yirsels, 1900s– yeirsells.

γ. English regional (chiefly Yorkshire) 1800s– yersens, 1800s– yorsens, 1900s– yoursens (north midlands and northern).

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: yourself pron.

Etymology: < yourself pron. + plural ending -s . Compare earlier themselves pron., and compare also ourselves pron.With the β. and γ. forms compare note at myself pron.

With plural reference: the emphatic and reflexive pronoun corresponding to you, replacing the earlier yourself (yourself pron. I.).

I. Reflexive uses.

1. As direct or indirect object or as the object of a preposition.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxlvi. 71 b/2 It is his wyll that ye all shulde put your selfes into his pure wyll.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xvii. f. ciiij Take hede to youre selves.

1539 Bible (Great) Matt. vi. 19 Laye not vp for your selues treasure vpon earth.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V4^v Fly fast, and saue yourselues from neare decay.

a1652 R. Brome Novella i. i. sig. H7, in Five New Playes (1653) Not to wanton out your holy vowes Dancing your selfes to th'Devill.

1671 J. Caryll Sir Salomon 31 Advance, and stand before me, that you may receive in Charge, how to behave yourselves in my Service.

1726 T. Boston Let. 21 May in Memoirs (1776) App. 35 Stand to the bargain, and check yourselves for any semblance of rueing.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 52 Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves .

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxi. 337 ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourselves,’ said the voice of Mr. Raddle.

1847 R. S. Surtees Hawbuck Grange xvi. 328 It is all very well for you to give yourselves airs among other girls.

1849 Oberlin (Ohio) Evangelist 20 June 99/2 You act as if you thought yourselves to have good reasons for choosing death.

1910 ‘M. Twain’ Speeches 20 I ask you to put yourselves in his place.

1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 137 You boys always make a disgrace of yourselves, and make me ashamed of myself.

2008 J. Wilson Cookie (2009) xv. 245 Now, you ladies talk among yourselves while I do the finishing touches to the meal.

II. Emphatic uses.

2. In apposition to the pronoun ye or you (usually as subject, less commonly as predicate or object), or after a verb in the imperative: for your part; personally; as far as you are concerned.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxiii. f. xxxij^v Ye youre selves goo nott in, nether [1611 yee neither goe in your selues, neither] suffre ye them that come to enter in.

a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Svj^v It is ȝour craft,..Ȝour selfis, in ȝour Templis for to teche.

1611 Bible (King James) Luke xiii. 28 When yee shall see..all the Prophets in the kingdome of God, and you your selues thrust out [1526 Tindale, and youre selves thrust oute a dores] .

1701 J. Le Clerc Harmony of Evangelists 135 Unless you your selves are of such a merciful disposition, 'tis in vain for you to expect to appease God's Anger.

1799 Sporting Mag. July 220 You yourselves will soon enter into..purgatory.

1837 Times 5 June 4/1 You ought..to submit at once to the ascendancy of the House of Lords and cease to be yourselves a dead incumbrance upon the State.

1873 D. F. MacCarthy Life is Dream iii. iii. 83 It was you yourselves that thus Sigismundized me and princed me.

1889 32nd Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. 1888–9 107 The work done with animals at these stations is just as practical as any you do yourselves.

1912 La Follette's Weekly Mag. 6 Apr. 9/1 Now I ask you yourselves to think what such conduct means.

1972 D. Campton Cagebirds (1976) 17 But you probably know about that. After all, you're here yourselves.

1992 Glasgow Herald 16 Nov. (Sport Suppl.) 2/2 If you can't stop your opponents lifting at the lines, just get on with it yourselves.

3. Used instead of the pronoun you.

a. As direct or indirect object of a verb, or as the object of a preposition.

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. e By grace are ye made saffe thorow faith and that cometh not of youre selues but yt ys the gyfte of god.

1641 C. Burges Two Serm. House of Commons 44 Whether is our Condition any what better now than heretofore, when those Leviathans were alive, and in their height? I appeale to yourselves.

1679 L. Addison Life & Death Mahumed iii. 14 From the second it was said, Now cometh an Apostle of your selves, with whom is the mighty.

1761 J. Wesley Let. 19 Feb. (1931) IV. 139 ‘The true ministers came down by succession from the Apostles.’ So do the Protestant ministers if the Romish do; the English in particular; as even one of yourselves, F. Courayer, has irrefragably proved.

1781 T. Pasley Jrnl. 3 Dec. in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 208 I appeal to yourselves whether you have not heard [etc.].

1839 Phrenol. Jrnl. 12 372 Now, I ask your platform—one and all I ask yourselves, to point out [etc.].

1882 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 106/1 I knew he was the heir, which few, except yourselves, did.

1906 6th Ann. Iowa Year Bk. Agric. 1905 1010 I leave yourselves to judge which kind of a farmer you are.

1969 I. G. Sarason & V. J. Ganzer in J. D. Krumboltz & C. E. Thoresen Behavioral Counseling xxii. 184 We are here because we are interested in working with fellows like yourselves.

1996 T. Wolff Night in Question 174 A man of our state, a parent like many of yourselves here today.

b. As subject.

c1531 G. Joye Lett. Ashwell to Lyncolne sig. A.v^v Wo be to you lawyers for you haue taken awaye the keye of knowlege so that uether [read nether] your selues enteryn and yet forbyd you them that wolde enteryn.

1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Thess. ii. 1 For your selues know, brethren, our entrance vnto you, that it was not vaine.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 349 If you doe loue old men,..if your selues are old.

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness 276 Yourselves are the principal Murderers of Christ.

1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 110 I intend to carry you where your selves shall be Judges of his Conversation.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 3 Say great Patricians! (since yourselves inspire These wond'rous works..).

1840 R. Browning Sordello 20 Yourselves shall trace..a soul fit to receive Delight at every sense.

1843 Southern Planter Mar. 58/2 If yourselves or any of your numerous readers can give me any information..I would be very thankful for it.

1907 Every Where Sept. 148 You who can only agree In the great lessons of Nature, with what yourselves can see.

1989 V. Henley Falcon & Flower xlii. 463 You must see that he gets to Newark where both he and yourselves will be safe.

c. As predicate (now chiefly Irish English), and after as or than.

ΚΠ

?1572 R. Sempill Premonitioun Barnis of Leith (single sheet) Sum of thame dois euin mislyke thame Als mekle as ȝour sells.

1639 G. Chapman & J. Shirley Trag. Chabot iii. sig. E2^v Alas my most learned Lord, none knowes better than your selves, how easie the sinceritie of Iustice is pretended.

1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified vi. 144 We condemne, that form of Ordination..as much as yourselves.

1778 G. Colman Bonduca iii. 25 He that stirs to execute, Or she, tho' it be yourselves, Shall feel mine anger!

1798 J. D. Burk Female Patriotism iii. iii. 19 Let not your praises taste of blasphemy: I am no more of heaven than yourselves.

1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 346 By my very birth I am a creature sinful as yourselves.

1843 W. J. Neale Lost Ship I. xi. 168 Weep away, my little dears!—and if you only knew what cause you have for blubbering, it's yourselves, may be, this very morning, would pipe your eyes a little more.

1895 J. Barlow Maureen's Fairing 141 It's yourselves are the great ould rogues and thieves of the world.

1913 L. F. Perkins Irish Twins 9 It's yourselves can read me a letter from my son Michael, that's in America!

1956 W. T. de Bary tr. I. Saikaku Five Women who loved Love ii. 93 I have been thinking for some time of making the same pilgrimage and there could be no better companions for the journey than yourselves.

2000 T. Pratchett Fifth Elephant (2001) 356 Ah, it's yourselves, good as new.

4. to be yourselves: to act in your normal unconstrained manner; to be in your normal state of body and mind. Cf. myself pron. 4b, yourself pron. 5.

ΘΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > your (true) being or personality

yourselfc1405

to be yourselvesa1627

a1627 J. Beaumont Bosworth-field (1629) 9 Know then, ye haue but chang'd your Gen'ralls name, Be still your selues, ye fight against the drosse Of those, that oft haue runne from you with losse.

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. 428 Be still your selves, and we shall need no more.

1795 Coll. State Papers War against France III. i. 302 Returned to be yourselves..you have been permitted to manifest your own thoughts.

1821 Ld. Byron Cain i. i, in Sardanapalus 353 One is yours already, The other may be still..By being Yourselves, in your resistance.

1899 M. E. Grant Duff Notes from Diary 1881–1886 II. 335 The last thing which any sensible man..desires is, that you should cease to be yourselves.

1923 A. Spadoni Noise of World 211 Nonsense, Anne. Freer to be yourselves! Nobody expects to be free when they're married.

1990 M. J. Abadie & C. Bader Love Planets 311 You feel you can be yourselves with each other.

2010 A. Selzer I kissed Zombie 107 Just be yourselves.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	yourselves
释义	yourselvespron. Brit. /jɔːˈsɛlvz/, /jʊəˈsɛlvz/, /jəˈsɛlvz/, U.S. /jɔrˈsɛlvz/, /jʊrˈsɛlvz/, /jərˈsɛlvz/ Forms: α. 1500s youre selues, 1500s yourselfes, 1500s yourselues, 1500s yovre selves, 1500s–1600s youre selves, 1500s–1600s your selfes, 1500s–1700s your selues, 1500s–1700s your selves, 1500s– yourselves; Scottish pre-1700 ȝoure selfis, pre-1700 ȝourselffis, pre-1700 ȝourselfis, pre-1700 ȝour selfis, pre-1700 yourselffs, pre-1700 yourselfs, pre-1700 your selues, pre-1700 1700s– yourselves. β. English regional 1800s yerzuls (Devon), 1800s– yersels (chiefly northern), 1800s– yerzels (Devon), 1900s– yoursels (north midlands and northern); Scottish pre-1700 ȝour sells, pre-1700 your sells, 1700s–1800s yoursells, 1700s– yoursels, 1800s– yersels, 1800s– yirsels, 1900s– yeirsells. γ. English regional (chiefly Yorkshire) 1800s– yersens, 1800s– yorsens, 1900s– yoursens (north midlands and northern). Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: yourself pron. Etymology: < yourself pron. + plural ending -s . Compare earlier themselves pron., and compare also ourselves pron.With the β. and γ. forms compare note at myself pron. With plural reference: the emphatic and reflexive pronoun corresponding to you, replacing the earlier yourself (yourself pron. I.). I. Reflexive uses. 1. As direct or indirect object or as the object of a preposition. Π 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxlvi. 71 b/2 It is his wyll that ye all shulde put your selfes into his pure wyll. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xvii. f. ciiij Take hede to youre selves. 1539 Bible (Great) Matt. vi. 19 Laye not vp for your selues treasure vpon earth. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V4^v Fly fast, and saue yourselues from neare decay. a1652 R. Brome Novella i. i. sig. H7, in Five New Playes (1653) Not to wanton out your holy vowes Dancing your selfes to th'Devill. 1671 J. Caryll Sir Salomon 31 Advance, and stand before me, that you may receive in Charge, how to behave yourselves in my Service. 1726 T. Boston Let. 21 May in Memoirs (1776) App. 35 Stand to the bargain, and check yourselves for any semblance of rueing. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 52 Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves . View more context for this quotation 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxi. 337 ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourselves,’ said the voice of Mr. Raddle. 1847 R. S. Surtees Hawbuck Grange xvi. 328 It is all very well for you to give yourselves airs among other girls. 1849 Oberlin (Ohio) Evangelist 20 June 99/2 You act as if you thought yourselves to have good reasons for choosing death. 1910 ‘M. Twain’ Speeches 20 I ask you to put yourselves in his place. 1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 137 You boys always make a disgrace of yourselves, and make me ashamed of myself. 2008 J. Wilson Cookie (2009) xv. 245 Now, you ladies talk among yourselves while I do the finishing touches to the meal. II. Emphatic uses. 2. In apposition to the pronoun ye or you (usually as subject, less commonly as predicate or object), or after a verb in the imperative: for your part; personally; as far as you are concerned. Π 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxiii. f. xxxij^v Ye youre selves goo nott in, nether [1611 yee neither goe in your selues, neither] suffre ye them that come to enter in. a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Svj^v It is ȝour craft,..Ȝour selfis, in ȝour Templis for to teche. 1611 Bible (King James) Luke xiii. 28 When yee shall see..all the Prophets in the kingdome of God, and you your selues thrust out [1526 Tindale, and youre selves thrust oute a dores] . View more context for this quotation 1701 J. Le Clerc Harmony of Evangelists 135 Unless you your selves are of such a merciful disposition, 'tis in vain for you to expect to appease God's Anger. 1799 Sporting Mag. July 220 You yourselves will soon enter into..purgatory. 1837 Times 5 June 4/1 You ought..to submit at once to the ascendancy of the House of Lords and cease to be yourselves a dead incumbrance upon the State. 1873 D. F. MacCarthy Life is Dream iii. iii. 83 It was you yourselves that thus Sigismundized me and princed me. 1889 32nd Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. 1888–9 107 The work done with animals at these stations is just as practical as any you do yourselves. 1912 La Follette's Weekly Mag. 6 Apr. 9/1 Now I ask you yourselves to think what such conduct means. 1972 D. Campton Cagebirds (1976) 17 But you probably know about that. After all, you're here yourselves. 1992 Glasgow Herald 16 Nov. (Sport Suppl.) 2/2 If you can't stop your opponents lifting at the lines, just get on with it yourselves. 3. Used instead of the pronoun you. a. As direct or indirect object of a verb, or as the object of a preposition. Π ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. e By grace are ye made saffe thorow faith and that cometh not of youre selues but yt ys the gyfte of god. 1641 C. Burges Two Serm. House of Commons 44 Whether is our Condition any what better now than heretofore, when those Leviathans were alive, and in their height? I appeale to yourselves. 1679 L. Addison Life & Death Mahumed iii. 14 From the second it was said, Now cometh an Apostle of your selves, with whom is the mighty. 1761 J. Wesley Let. 19 Feb. (1931) IV. 139 ‘The true ministers came down by succession from the Apostles.’ So do the Protestant ministers if the Romish do; the English in particular; as even one of yourselves, F. Courayer, has irrefragably proved. 1781 T. Pasley Jrnl. 3 Dec. in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 208 I appeal to yourselves whether you have not heard [etc.]. 1839 Phrenol. Jrnl. 12 372 Now, I ask your platform—one and all I ask yourselves, to point out [etc.]. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 106/1 I knew he was the heir, which few, except yourselves, did. 1906 6th Ann. Iowa Year Bk. Agric. 1905 1010 I leave yourselves to judge which kind of a farmer you are. 1969 I. G. Sarason & V. J. Ganzer in J. D. Krumboltz & C. E. Thoresen Behavioral Counseling xxii. 184 We are here because we are interested in working with fellows like yourselves. 1996 T. Wolff Night in Question 174 A man of our state, a parent like many of yourselves here today. b. As subject. Π c1531 G. Joye Lett. Ashwell to Lyncolne sig. A.v^v Wo be to you lawyers for you haue taken awaye the keye of knowlege so that uether [read nether] your selues enteryn and yet forbyd you them that wolde enteryn. 1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Thess. ii. 1 For your selues know, brethren, our entrance vnto you, that it was not vaine. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 349 If you doe loue old men,..if your selues are old. View more context for this quotation 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness 276 Yourselves are the principal Murderers of Christ. 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 110 I intend to carry you where your selves shall be Judges of his Conversation. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 3 Say great Patricians! (since yourselves inspire These wond'rous works..). 1840 R. Browning Sordello 20 Yourselves shall trace..a soul fit to receive Delight at every sense. 1843 Southern Planter Mar. 58/2 If yourselves or any of your numerous readers can give me any information..I would be very thankful for it. 1907 Every Where Sept. 148 You who can only agree In the great lessons of Nature, with what yourselves can see. 1989 V. Henley Falcon & Flower xlii. 463 You must see that he gets to Newark where both he and yourselves will be safe. c. As predicate (now chiefly Irish English), and after as or than. ΚΠ ?1572 R. Sempill Premonitioun Barnis of Leith (single sheet) Sum of thame dois euin mislyke thame Als mekle as ȝour sells. 1639 G. Chapman & J. Shirley Trag. Chabot iii. sig. E2^v Alas my most learned Lord, none knowes better than your selves, how easie the sinceritie of Iustice is pretended. 1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified vi. 144 We condemne, that form of Ordination..as much as yourselves. 1778 G. Colman Bonduca iii. 25 He that stirs to execute, Or she, tho' it be yourselves, Shall feel mine anger! 1798 J. D. Burk Female Patriotism iii. iii. 19 Let not your praises taste of blasphemy: I am no more of heaven than yourselves. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 346 By my very birth I am a creature sinful as yourselves. 1843 W. J. Neale Lost Ship I. xi. 168 Weep away, my little dears!—and if you only knew what cause you have for blubbering, it's yourselves, may be, this very morning, would pipe your eyes a little more. 1895 J. Barlow Maureen's Fairing 141 It's yourselves are the great ould rogues and thieves of the world. 1913 L. F. Perkins Irish Twins 9 It's yourselves can read me a letter from my son Michael, that's in America! 1956 W. T. de Bary tr. I. Saikaku Five Women who loved Love ii. 93 I have been thinking for some time of making the same pilgrimage and there could be no better companions for the journey than yourselves. 2000 T. Pratchett Fifth Elephant (2001) 356 Ah, it's yourselves, good as new. 4. to be yourselves: to act in your normal unconstrained manner; to be in your normal state of body and mind. Cf. myself pron. 4b, yourself pron. 5. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > your (true) being or personality yourselfc1405 to be yourselvesa1627 a1627 J. Beaumont Bosworth-field (1629) 9 Know then, ye haue but chang'd your Gen'ralls name, Be still your selues, ye fight against the drosse Of those, that oft haue runne from you with losse. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. 428 Be still your selves, and we shall need no more. 1795 Coll. State Papers War against France III. i. 302 Returned to be yourselves..you have been permitted to manifest your own thoughts. 1821 Ld. Byron Cain i. i, in Sardanapalus 353 One is yours already, The other may be still..By being Yourselves, in your resistance. 1899 M. E. Grant Duff Notes from Diary 1881–1886 II. 335 The last thing which any sensible man..desires is, that you should cease to be yourselves. 1923 A. Spadoni Noise of World 211 Nonsense, Anne. Freer to be yourselves! Nobody expects to be free when they're married. 1990 M. J. Abadie & C. Bader Love Planets 311 You feel you can be yourselves with each other. 2010 A. Selzer I kissed Zombie 107 Just be yourselves. 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