thyself

«thyself» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: yourself — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

yourself

part of speech

pronoun, reflexive form, one person

meaning for a pupil

You, as the one doing the action or receiving it. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say yourself.

examples

• As yet exaltest thou thyself against My people, that thou wilt not let them go? (Torah EXO.9.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• Make thyself as free as anyone else. (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →
• And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. (Torah LEV.18.20, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 3; corpora 99 (Torah 33, tales 66, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 11.2 (Torah alone 77.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the king of Sodom said unto Abram: 'Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.'
• And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.'
• As yet exaltest thou thyself against My people, that thou wilt not let them go?
• And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
• Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thyself» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.