Meanings
- nonstandardpseudo-archaicYourselves; a plural of the archaic pronoun thyself.
1993, Edward James Blakely and Sumner M. Sharp, Planners, Heal Thyselves: Planning Education, Educators, and Practitioners in the Next Century, University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Urban and Regional Planning. [see title]
2 more examples
Therefore I call unto thee, repent before me. Humble thyselves. Humble thyselves before me that I may forgive thy sin.
a. 1982, Bobbi Morris (?), quoted in Steven M. Tipton, Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change, University of California Press (1982), page 52Know Thyselves
1999, Tom Hirschfeld, Business Dad: How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa), Little, Brown and Company, published 2000, →ISBN, page 62Synonyms: thineselves
Synonyms & antonyms
pronounYourselves; a plural of the archaic pronoun thyself.
Origin
From thy + -selves, apparently by analogy with yourselves.
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