thyselves

pron

thyselves

pron

Etymology From thy + -selves, apparently by analogy with yourselves.

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Nonstandard Yourselves; a plural of the archaic pronoun thyself.

  • 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 52
  • 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]
1 more example
  • Know Thyselves1999, Tom Hirschfeld, Business Dad: How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa), Little, Brown and Company, published 2000, →ISBN, page 62:

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