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# thyself

pronoun, reflexive form, one person

«thyself» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

You, as the one doing the action or receiving it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thyself/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used; today we say yourself.

### Examples

- As yet exaltest thou thyself against My people, that thou wilt not let them go? (Torah EXO.9.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thyself/#x1)
- Make thyself as free as anyone else. (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thyself/#x2)
- And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. (Torah LEV.18.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thyself/#x3)

### Note

Today: yourself.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «thyself» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thyself/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«thyself» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/thyself.html) on Mova free.