herself

CEFRA2

/hɜːˈsɛlf/

pronoun

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pronoun
Used to refer to a female person previously mentioned.
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Extra detail
She; an intensifier of the female subject or object, often used to indicate the directness or exclusiveness of that person .

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.

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Lizzo, who is known for messages of self-love and wider acceptance, has recently said as much as she shared that she is encouraging a stance of body neutrality for herself and others.
2023 May 29, Madeline Holcombe, “Lizzo is teaching us about body neutrality. Here is what it means and how to get there”, in CNN
This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.
1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, pages 241-242

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From Middle English. Equivalent to her + -self.