Him*self" (?), Him*selve" (&?;),
Him*self" (?), pron. 1.
An emphasized form of the third
person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
But he himself returned from the quarries.
Judges iii. 19.
David hid himself in the field.
1 Sam. xx. 24. The Lord himself shall give you a sign.
Is. vii.
14. Who gave himself for us, that he might . . . purify unto himself a peculiar people.
Titus ii. 14.
With shame
remembers, while himself was one
Of the
same herd, himself the same had done.
Denham. &fist; Himself was formerly used instead of itself. See Note under Him.
It
comprehendeth in himself all good.
Chaucer.
2. One's true or real
character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind
(after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to
himself.
By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as, he sits or studies by himself. -- To leave one
to himself, to withdraw from him; to let him take
his own course.