yourself

pronoun, plural your·selves [yoo r-selvz, yawr-, yohr-, yer-] /yʊərˈsɛlvz, yɔr-, yoʊr-, yər-/.

1. (an emphatic appositive of you or ye1): a letter you yourself wrote.
2. a reflexive form of you (used as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition): Don’t blame yourself. Did you ever ask yourself “why”? You can think for yourself.
3. Informal. (used in place of you, especially in compound subjects, objects, and complements): Ted and yourself have been elected. We saw your sister and yourself at the game. People like yourselves always feel like that.
4. (used in absolute constructions): Yourself having so little money, how could they expect you to help?
5. your normal or customary self: You’ll soon be yourself again.
6. (used in place of you after as, than, or but): scholars as famous as yourselves; a girl no older than yourself.
7. oneself: The surest way is to do it yourself.

pronoun plural -selves

1. 1. the reflexive form of you
   2. (intensifier)you yourself control your destiny
2. (preceded by a copula) your normal or usual selfyou’re not yourself these days

by early 14c., from your + self. Plural yourselves first recorded 1520s.