Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ourselves"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Myself \My*self"\, pron.; pl. {Ourselves}.
I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or
person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; --
used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of
a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ourselves \Our*selves"\, pron.
; sing. {Ourself} (?). An emphasized form of the pronoun of the
first person plural; -- used as a subject, usually with we;
also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the
objective case.
We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great
deal further then we usually do. --Locke.
Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand.
--Dryden.
Note: The form ourself is usec only in the regal or formal
style after we or us, denoting a single person.
Unless we would denude ourself of all force.
--Clarendon.
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