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.
⇒ 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.
© Webster 1913.