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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