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Hirself
//hiɹˈsɛlf// pron
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Pronoun
- 1 Hir, themselves; gender-neutral third-person singular object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with gendered himself and herself. gender-neutral, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, reflexive, singular, third-person
"It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep."
- 2 Sie; an intensive repetition of a gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of a predicate. emphatic, gender-neutral, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, reflexive, singular, third-person
"The trouble starts when gender (identity) ceases to be a reference point for connecting with a living growing person and is substituted for the person hirself."
Etymology
From hir + -self, following pattern of herself, himself, and itself.
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