Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for OUR-SELVES'
OUR-SELVES', pron. [plur. of Ourself.]
We or us, not others; added to we, by way of emphasis or opposition. We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal farther than we usually do. Locke. Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand. Dryden.
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