Meaning of emself | Babel Free

Definitions

Em, a gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of em, equivalent to themself (also used for emphasis).

gender-neutral, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, rare, reflexive, singular, third-person

Examples

“Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if ey should trip up in the new usage, ey would only have emself to blame.”

“In this particular instance, a wizard eventually took it upon emself to @toad Mr_Bungle...”

“The adult worries much less; is cautious, sensible and knows how to protect emself and eir system from attack and error.”

“As he^([sic]) struggled to yank Sarah back to eir room, Edward promised emself that ey'd do whatever ey could to save what was left of eir sibling's sanity- and protect em from their monster of a mother.”

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