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Herself vs Perself - What's the difference?

herself | perself | Hyponyms |

Perself is a hyponym of herself.



As pronouns the difference between herself and perself

is that herself is her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.perself is per, themself; Gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of per.

herself

English

Pronoun

  • (reflexive) Her;
  • * , chapter=17
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (emphatic) She;
  • (slang) A self-important female.
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    perself

    English

    Pronoun

    (head)
  • (neologism, reflexive) per, themself;
  • Per injured perself .
  • * 1996 February 22, "Susan Groppi" (username), "These messages make me so sad...", in alt.adoption, Usenet :
  • I can't comment on the original poster's motivations, but I do know that some agencies (mine, for instance) will not release any information until the adoptee is 18, and then the adoptee perself has to request the information.
  • * 1996 December 6, "Suki L. McDonough" (username), "What's Up?", in soc.women.lesbian-and-bi, Usenet :
  • My hit on the comment was that she was saying that a person on a newsgroup could choose *not* to publicly identify as a member of a visually identifiable minority which is subject to oppression, and therefore spend some time not having to have such oppression directed at perself as an individual (although obviously such a person would still be subject to "ist" postings which aim at the oppressed group in general).
  • * 1997 April 22, "Anthony and Joy Hilbert" (username), "ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
  • The person who called perself a dom, but then breached a safeword or did something similarly non-consensual.

    Synonyms

    * themself

    Hyponyms

    * himself, herself

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns English third person pronouns