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ourselves
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Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
Other meanings
2. pronoun
Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
3. pronoun
Referring to everyone being addressed.
4. pronoun
Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.
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