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itself

pron
/ɪtˈsɛlf/CA/ɪtˈself/

Etymology

From Middle English hit-self, equivalent to it + -self.

  1. inherited from hit-self

Definitions

  1. it

    it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject

    • When the opportunity presented itself, no feasible course of action suggested itself (to us).
    • The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.

The neighborhood

Derived

a house divided against itself cannot stand, being-for-itself, being-in-itself, dense-in-itself, end in itself, history repeats itself, in and of itself, in itself, in-itselfness, lend itself to, of itself, pay for itself, repeat itself, simplicity itself, suggest itself, the trash takes itself out, thing-in-itself, thing in itself, unto itself, write itself

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for itself. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA