Definition of "herself" []

• That one identical with her: (pronoun)
• Used reflexively as the direct or indirect object of a verb or as the object of a preposition: She bought herself a new car. She sculpted a likeness of herself. (pronoun)
• Used for emphasis: She herself was certain of the facts. (pronoun)
• Used in an absolute construction: In office herself, she helped him get a job. (pronoun)
• Her normal or healthy condition or state: She's feeling herself again. (pronoun)

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• "An Irish paper, in noticing a coroner's inquest on a young woman who had drowned herself, says, the jury, after an hour's deliberation, brought in a verdict of _wilful murder against herself_."
• "Even Minna in misfortune would have allowed herself to be persuaded either to increase or to assuage the misfortune of her friend through herself…."
• "After that perhaps you won't believe that our neighbour, Madame Tchepuz, Elena Antonovna, told me herself, mind _herself_, that she had murdered her nephew? '"