ownself
9.9
A person does something alone to show emphasis
- pronoun
- /oʊnˈsɛlf/
- UK
:
uno mismo
- Yeah, to thine own self be true.
You take it for granted, your own self, you do things.
- You take it for granted, your own self, you do things.
- He'll say it, it is in its own self a contradiction.
- Don't they matter to you beyond just the scope of your own self centeredness?
- He is my own little self, my Lord.
- I am sitting in trust in my own self, in my own body's wisdom.
- Yeah, to thine own self be true.
- And that's when I felt in my own self that this practice is lifting people.
- So the AIS intelligence was based on patient's own self-reports.
- Like a lot of the magic of animals and robots is our own self projection.
- I also notice your own self-confidence is different now as well.
- I mean, we, we are our own self publishers, yes.
- It has a content which is in its own self subject through and through.
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Examples
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I am sitting in trust in my own self, in my own body's wisdom.
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And that's when I felt in my own self that this practice is lifting people.
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You take it for granted, your own self, you do things.
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You know, I wouldn't even expect I dig my own self out of stuff.
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To know your ownself is the first step towards personal growth.
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She learned to trust her ownself after years of doubt.
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He finally accepted his ownself, flaws and all.
Synonyms
oneself
vsownself
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1.2
Shows the speaker or people in general do the action
is a nonstandard dialectal form used to emphasize the person mentioned
Surface Forms
ownself reflexive
Morphology
Etymology
Ownself comes from putting together own ('belonging to you') and self ('person'). It is a nonstandard or dialect way to stress doing something by 'yourself', so ownself means the same idea as 'oneself' or 'by yourself'.