itself
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
itself/ɪtˈself/
▶pronoun [third person sing.]
- 1 [reflexive] used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a thing or animal previously mentioned as the subject of the clause.
- 2 [emphatic] used to emphasize a particular thing or animal mentioned.
■ used to emphasize what a perfect example of a particular quality someone or something is.
– phrases
in itself viewed in its essential qualities.
in itself viewed in its essential qualities.
'itself' also found in these Oxford entries:
acorn barnacle
- ampersand
- annual
- archivolt
- autogenous
- autointoxication
- automatic
- automaton
- autotelic
- autotoxin
- baby walker
- backhoe
- balloonfish
- barnacle
- blade
- broomrape
- budget
- busywork
- canvas
- Caribbean
- catalyst
- chapel
- cling film
- closed
- colonize
- concord
- confront
- consciousness
- Ding an sich
- disabled
- double
- eigenvector
- emotive
- empty
- epitope
- epoch
- era
- fingerplate
- First Cause
- fish louse
- fold
- front
- gaper
- gimbal
- glochidium
- gyroscope
- hack
- haunt
- hedgehog
- heteronomous
