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单词 ownself
释义

ownself

/ˈəʊnsɛlf/
Now chiefly regional (especially US (southern ) and Caribbean )
pronoun
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 and reflexively.This construction is to be distinguished from other phrases with possessive followed by own self in which self functions as the noun head..

Origin

Late Middle English. From own + self, after himself noun, etc.

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