Oneself vs. Themself — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Oneself and Themself
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Oneself
A person's self: general form of himself, herself, themself or yourself.
Teaching oneself to swim can be dangerous.
Themself
Used instead of ‘himself’ or ‘herself’ to refer to a person of unspecified sex
The casual observer might easily think themself back in 1945
Oneself
A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly written as two words, one's self.
One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self = one's self.
Themself
(reflexive pronoun) The reflexive form of they, the third-person singular personal pronoun. The single person previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition also used for emphasis.
Someone could hurt themself.
Anyone who wants a car like mine can buy one themself.
Themself
Synonym of themselves.
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