Middle English Dictionary Entry
yẹ̄-self pron.
Entry Info
| Forms | yẹ̄-self pron. |
| Etymology | From yẹ̄ pron. & self adj., n., & pron. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. you-self pron., your-self pron.
1.
Emphatic plural 2nd person pron.: you yourselves, you: (a) used as an appositive to the subj. of a clause;
(b) used independently as subj. of a clause.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6096 : In mining sal ye hald þis dai, Yee-self and your oxspring ai.
- c1400 PPl.B (Trin-C B.15.17)16.122 : Thanne are ye cherles…And Sathan youre Saueour: yeself [Ld: ȝow-selue] now ye witnessen.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)1 Pet.2.5 : Ȝe silf [WB(1): ȝoure silf; L ipsi] as quyk stoonys, be ȝe aboue bildid in to spiritual housis.
b
- c1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Evang.(Bod 343)12/23 : Ȝif ȝe sylfe hwæs biddæð…he hit ȝifð eow.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)38/5 : We sceolon forȝyfæn ðam ðe wið us agyltæð, swa swa ðe Hælend sæde, be ðam ðe ȝe sylfe herdon, of inneweardre heortæ þæt he us mildsiȝe.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Thes.4.9 : Sothli, ȝesilf han lerud of God that ȝe loue to gidere.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)11216 : Ȝe men þat brekyn cunnaunte, Ȝe selfe falsen þat ȝe fyrst graunte.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)780 : Als godds suld ȝee seluen be.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14691 : Þe soth al mai we find, Bot-if yee self [Göt: ȝe self; Frf: ȝe; Trin-C: ȝou self] willi be blind.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)19094 : Yee…demed als yee-seluen [Phys-E: ge seluin] wate.
- ?a1450 Dives & P.(BodTh d.36)1.74 : If alle men weren as riche as ȝesilff ben, ȝe schulden fare mych þe wors.