Herself vs Hirself - What's the difference?
herself | hirself | Hyponyms |
(reflexive) Her;
* , chapter=17
, title= (emphatic) She;
(slang) A self-important female.
(neologism, reflexive) hir, themself;
* {{quote-book
, year = 1996
, month = June
, title = Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure
, first = Catilin
, last = Sullivan
, coauthor =
, publisher = Serpent's Tail
, location = New York
, isbn = 9781852424183
, id =
, lccn = 95072971
, ol = 820831M
, page = 13
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QV5bAAAAMAAJ
, passage = It is here that Scratch has found hirself , bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2000
, title = Renaissance
, series = Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur 2
, first = Peter
, last = David
, authorlink = Peter David
, publisher = Simon & Schuster
, isbn = 0743422260
, ol = 3665551M
, page = 229
, passage = Hir]] nostrils flared, and [[s/he stopped where s/he was, balancing hirself' on hir toes without thought, as if poising ' hirself to make some sort of attack on whoever was there.
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=oSvCkiIzTOEC&pg=PA229
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2001-06-09
, title = Your Brain is God
, first = Timothy
, last = Leary
, chapter = 8
, publisher = Ronin Publishing
, location = Oakland
, isbn = 9781579510527
, id =
, lccn = 2001118555
, passage = The working person discovered that hir own body belonged, not to the state or to the moralist or to the authoritarian doctor, but to hirself .
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_DgmATBfmdQC&pg=PT61
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2009
, author = Pope Gus Rasputin Nishnabotna Sni-A-Bar
, title = The Nuclear Platypus Biscuit Bible: A Spiritual Guide for the Disciples of Biscuitism
, chapter = Biscuitus
, page = 16
, isbn = 9780578026633
, lccn = 2008900551
, passage = Alas, then remembered S/He had created Hirself to be omnisciently all-knowing and all-seeing, so there were no possibilities S/He didn't already know.
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=Z0Gw5II-F74C&pg=PA16
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2010-10-12
, title = The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir
, first = Erica
, last = Lopez
, others = Hicken, Jeffrey
, publisher = Monster Girl Media
, location = San Francisco
, isbn = 978-0984401406
, lccn = 21010902427
, page = 143
, passage = Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n' Fresh Doe.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, first = Jody
, last = Norton
, chapter = Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature
, title = Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature
, editors = Kidd, Kenneth B.; Abate, Michelle Ann
, publisher = University of Michigan
, page = 306
, isbn = 9780472071463
, id =
, passage = A harrowing series of violent and transphobic confrontations (including some with hir parents) drives Ludo to attempt to kill hirself by going to sleep in a freezer.
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=fsWV-TAoJXEC&pg=PA306
}}
(neologism, emphatic) sie; .
* {{quote-book
, date = 1997-12-18
, title = My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
, first = Kate
, last = Bornstein
, authorlink = Kate Bornstein
, publisher = Routledge
, location = London, New York
, isbn = 9780415916738
, id =
, lccn = 98134184
, ol = 7495768M
, page = 164
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=NjH32xMTu7kC&pg=PA164
, passage = The trouble starts when gender (identity) ceases to be a reference point for connecting with a living growing person and is substituted for the person hirself .
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2002
, title = The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality
, first = Frank
, last = Schaap
, location = Amsterdam
, publisher = Aksant Academic Publishers
, page = 90
, isbn = 9055891991
, ol = 17062341M
, passage = OOC talk and actions are taken to represent the player hirself and help other players to form an image, however tentative it may be, of that player.
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=a72ATDOTez8C&pg=PA90
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2003-04-01
, title = Slave Trade
, series = Slave Trade Trilogy 1
, first = Susan
, last = Wright
, publisher = Pocket Books
, isbn = 9780743466851
, ol = 3283799M
, page = 97
, passage = Ash hadn't experienced much of that hirself , but assumed it could happen.
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5vJAfJbkS-MC&pg=PA97
}}
Hirself is a hyponym of herself.
As pronouns the difference between herself and hirself
is that herself is her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.hirself is hir, themself; Gender-neutral third-person singular object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with gendered {{term|himself and {{term|herself}}.}.herself
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Pronoun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}