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What does ourselves mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ourselves? Here's what it means.

Pronoun
  1. (reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
  2. (emphatic) We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.
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We restrict ourselves to the case where the brush layers are squeezed against each other but they do not interdigitate.
We should be looking at changing our lifestyles, not stuffing ourselves full of quack medicine.
On one of our last days we found ourselves in a church we'd never heard of, the abbey of Mozac near Clermont-Ferrand.
When I was done she wrapped my shoulders in a towel, and then performed her own quick ablutions as Alice and I finished drying ourselves.
Well, I think we've gotten above ourselves in recent years, and it's about time someone brought us down a peg.
We must ask ourselves what binds us together as Americans, what makes us e pluribus unum, “out of many, one.”

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