him

1. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
   1. objectivepersonalpronounWith dative effect or as an indirect object.First known use 9th c.

      ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.

      1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC

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      […]therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.

      1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […]

   2. objectivepersonalpronounFollowing a preposition.First known use 9th c.

      She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

      1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC

   3. objectivepersonalpronounWith accusative effect or as a direct object.First known use 12th c.

      ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’

      1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

2. colloquialobjectivepersonalpronoununcommonAs a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.

   Now him and Bernie are best friends.

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   He released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.

3. objectivepersonalpronounUsed in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).

   Who was there? —Him.

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   Who did this? —Him. He did it. (or:) It was him. He did it.)

   Who did that? —(It was) not him: I was watching him the whole time.

4. archaicobjectivepersonalpronounUsed reflexively: (to) himself.First known use 9th c.

   Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.

   1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts

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   Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; [...] But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.

   1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The traveller, or, A prospect of society

5. objectivepersonalpronounWith nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.First known use 15th c.

   Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.

   2003 June 11, Claire Cozens, The Guardian

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   Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.

   c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene x]

6. objectivepersonalpronounslangA person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.

   Bro thinks he's him.

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   Stop trying that, you're not him bro.

   They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him.

   2023, PLUMMCORP RECORDS, 0:33 from the start, in dracula flow 3

   Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.

   2023 October 25, u/baggypantsman, “Super Mario 64 - 0 Star in 6:16 by Suigi”, in Reddit, r/speedrun, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2023

   Synonyms: that guy, that nigga

plural hims

1. informalA male person or animal.

   I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.

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   […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

   1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)

   Both hims took a good look at him.

   2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel

   By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”

   2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival, page 68

   Synonyms: he

1. honorificHonorific alternative letter-case form of him, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

   ☐ Try a conversational journaling approach, where you talk with God about what you are learning and write what you 'hear' Him saying to you (see Appendix 1 for examples)

   2015, Helen Calder, “Consider a Fresh Approach to Bible Study”, in Deeper: 6 Steps to Greater Intimacy with God and His Word, David McCracken Ministries, →ISBN, page 41

plural Hims

1. A surname from Khmer.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of His Imperial Majesty.
2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Her Imperial Majesty.