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Himself vs Perself - What's the difference?

himself | perself | Hyponyms |

Perself is a hyponym of himself.



As pronouns the difference between himself and perself

is that himself is him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subjectperself is per, themself; Gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of per.

himself

English

Pronoun

  • (label) Him; (the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject)
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • (label) He;
  • * Bible, (w) vii. 14
  • The Lord himself shall give you a sign.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
  • The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; "he himself".
  • *, II.7:
  • Yet it is that himselfe had been liberally gratified by his Unkle with militarie rewards, before ever he went to warres.
  • * Sir (1614-1669)
  • With shame remembers, while himself' was one / Of the same herd, ' himself the same had done.
  • * 1998 , Kirk Jones, Waking Ned , Tomboy films
  • Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet.
  • Synonyms

    * hisself

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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