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it·self (it self′)

pronoun

a form of it, used:
  1. as an intensifier the work itself is easy
  2. as a reflexive the dog bit itself
  3. with the meaning “its real, true, or normal self” [the bird is not itself today]: in this construction, it functions as an adjective and self as a noun; when they are separated, the form its is used its own sweet self

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasyand Forever be Itself again. See Sandburg 713:6.

-Ginsberg, Allen

Faith comprises both itself and doubt of itself.

-Tillich, Paul Johannes

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