Dictionary Entry

yourself

Part of SpeechpronounPronunciation/jɔːˈsɛlf/Used In Literature ↓

(reflexive pronoun) Your own self (singular).

In a Sentence

“Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. yourselfyourself findyourself askyourself make

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Poetry examples for “yourself”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

So from a sister sinner you shall hear,
'How strangely you expose yourself, my dear!' 10
But let me die, all raillery apart,

That every poet is a fool:
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.

A noble superfluity it craves,
Not for yourself, but for your fools and knaves:
Something, which for your honour they may cheat,

All that these lovers ever felt of love, 80
(Far more than e'er can by yourself be guess'd)
Fix on Vertumnus, and reject the rest:

4 Pallas, you give yourself strange airs;
But sure you'll find it hard to spoil

For, after all the murders of your eye,
When, after millions slain, yourself shall die;
When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,

Heroic if you will, or what you will, 215
Or be yourself your hero if you will.”

Of unswerving indifference to me?
It is not you; why disguise yourself
Against me, to break my heart,

Look at the little darlings in the corn!
The rye is taller than you, who think yourself
So high and mighty: look how its heads are borne

And none can call to you to come away;
For you have given all yourself to me
Making me gentle by your willingness.