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herself

pronoun

a form of she, used:
  1. as an intensifier: she said so herself
  2. as a reflexive: she hurt herself
  3. with the meaning “her real, true, or actual self” [she is not herself today]: in this construction her functions as an adjective and self as a noun, and they may be separated [her own sweet self]
  4. Irish as a subject: herself will have her tea now

See herself in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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