myself

UK /maɪˈsɛlf/ US /maɪˈsɛlf/
pron 6

Definitions

pron

1

Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject.

I taught myself.

(I) don’t think much of your new car, myself.

2

Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.

I myself have witnessed the event.

3

In my normal state of body or mind.

I feel like myself.

4

Me, as the object of a verb or preposition without a reflexive trigger. Sometimes used for intensifying the pronoun of oneself.

Give the ball to John or myself.

5

I (as the subject of a verb).

My wife and myself want to go on vacation.

And my selfe have knowen a Gentleman, a chiefe officer of our crowne, that by right and hope of succession (had he lived unto it) was to inherit above fifty thousand crownes a yeere good land[…].

pron

1

Alternative letter-case form of myself used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.

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