himself

Etymology

From Middle English hymself, from Old English him selfum. Equivalent to him + -self.

pron

1. (reflexive) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
   He injured himself.
2. (emphatic) He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate
   He was injured himself.
   The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy. 2014-06-21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
3. (Ireland, otherwise archaic) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.
   With shame remembers, while himself was one / Of the same herd, himself the same had done. Sir John Denham (1614-1669)
   Dennis: His glass is there and himself is in the toilet. 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films
4. (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
   Has himself come down to breakfast yet?
   Have you seen himself yet this morning?