Himself vs Thonself - What's the difference?
himself | thonself | Hyponyms |
(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
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; "he himself".
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* Sir (1614-1669)
* 1998 , Kirk Jones, Waking Ned , Tomboy films
(neologism, archaic, reflexive) themself;
* {{quote-journal
, year = 1885
, month = June
, title = Local Circles
, journal = The Chataquan
, volume = 5
, number = 9
, page = 544
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=33kAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA544
, passage = Each of the members is expected to inform ‘thonself ’ on the topic thus allotted, and to be prepared to give an opinion or ask questions.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1895
, title = Outlines of Psychology
, first = Henry Graham
, last = Williams
, publisher = C. W. Bardee
, location = Syracuse
, edition = 3rd
, page = 5
, ol = 25083084M
, ia = outlinesofpsycho01will
, id =
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_BEAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5
, passage = Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1898
, title = The Seri Indians
, first = W. J.
, last = McGee
, editor = J. W. Powell
, journal = Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1895-1896
, city = Washington
, page = 283
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=SI8qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA283
, passage = Thus neither man nor maid mates for thonself , but both love and move in the tribal interests and along the lines laid down by the tribal leaders.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1985
, title = On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
, first = William Knowlton
, last = Zinsser
, authorlink = William Zinsser
, publisher = Harper & Row
, location = New York
, edition = 3rd
, page = 121
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=fiZFAAAAYAAJ
, isbn = 978-0060154097
, id =
, lccn = 84048208
, passage = Maybe I don't speak for the average American, but I very much doubt that thon wants that word in thons language or that thon would use it thonself .
}}
Thonself is a hyponym of himself.
As pronouns the difference between himself and thonself
is that himself is him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subjectthonself is themself; gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with {{term|himself or {{term|herself}}, the reflexive form of {{term|thon}}.}.himself
English
Pronoun
- The Lord himself shall give you a sign.
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.}}
- Yet it is that himselfe had been liberally gratified by his Unkle with militarie rewards, before ever he went to warres.
- With shame remembers, while himself' was one / Of the same herd, ' himself the same had done.
- Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet.