Godself

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑdˈsɛlf/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɒdˈsɛlf/
• Rhymes: -ɛlf

Pronoun

Godself (reflexive form of God)

1. (reflexive pronoun) Non-gendered form of God himself.
   • 2016 [2009], Hannah Bacon, What's Right with the Trinity? Conversations in Feminist Theology‎^[1], Routledge:

     This is so, Barth claims, because reflection on revelation actually leads to the realization that the God who reveals Godself as Godself is in fact the trinitarian God.

2. (emphatic) Non-gendered form of God himself.
   • 2024, Dirk J. Smit, edited by Sipho Mahokoto, Essays on the Real Church: Collected Essays, volume 8, African Sun Media, page 21:

     In the songs praising God’s goodness beats the praise for the wondrous promises of God’s kingdom, of the new heaven and the new earth on which justice prevails, of fellowship with God when Godself will wipe away all tears from the eyes, where there will be no affliction any more, no longer any violence and injustice.

Usage notes

Used by some authors to avoid assigning a gendered pronoun to God.

See also

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself thysen	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all y'all you guys	you all y'all you guys	y'allselves	y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed)
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself (archaic) hissen	his hisn (obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself hersen	hers hern (obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itself hitself	its his (archaic)	its his (archaic) hits
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their