herselves

English

Etymology

From her +‎ -selves.

Pronoun

herselves

1. (reflexive, nonstandard) Her; used to indicate the referent as an entity with more than one self.

   Coordinate term: himselves

   • 2000, Sandra Shea, The Realm of Secondhand Souls, Boston, M.A., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 40:

     She had a vision of two of herselves, living in different universes. A world had once existed with one Novena in it; it still must exist, she must still be there, yet here she was.

   • 2016, Blake Charlton, Spellbreaker, London: HarperVoyager, →ISBN, page 21:

     Most of herselves felt variations on her present anxieties, but a few were filled with strange emotions changing too fast to identify. Concentrating on one of these improbable futures was like trying to barehandcatch an oiled gecko, And yet... Leandra couldn't resist mentally chasing these bright futures.

   • 2023 April 24, Catherine Lacey, “Congratulations on Your Loss”, in Slate‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-08-07:

     Where did it all go wrong, she wondered, easing out of bed, uncertain of what to do with herselves, uncertain of which self was her self and which self was someone else.