Associations to the word «Herself»

Wiktionary

HERSELF, pronoun. (reflexive) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
HERSELF, pronoun. (emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.
HERSELF, pronoun. (slang) A self-important female.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats