yourn (yorn)

U. S.] Your great Philosophers have been voluntarily poor. Burton , Anat. of Mel, p. 352) Yours. [Prov. Eng. and yours (yörz), pron. [ youres , zoures , etc.; with added po . suffix, as in ours , theirs , etc.: see your.] That which belongs or those which belong ong to you: the po e ive used without a following noun. Preceded by of, it is equivalent to the personal pronoun you: as, a friend of yours. Compare the similar phrases made with the other po e ives in the independent form. Ye cruell one! what glory can be got In slaying him that would live gladly yours! Spenser , Sonnets, lvii, What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine. Shak., M. for M., v. L. 543. Yours is no love, Faith and Religion fly it. Fletcher , Wife for a Month, i. 1. If by Fate yours only must be Empire, then of nece itie ours among the rest must be subjection. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. [ Yours is sometimes used in specific senses without reference to a noun previously mentioned: (a) Your property. (b) The persons belonging to you; your friends or relatives. Bothe to me & to myne mykull vnright, And to yow & also yours zomeryng [mourning] for ener. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L. 1722 O God, I fear thy justice will take hold On me, and you, and mine, and yours for this! Shak., Rich. III., ii. 1. 182 (c) Your letter: as, yours of the 16th inst. is at hand. I have yours just now of the 19th. Swift , To Dr. Sheridan, July 27, 1726.] Abbreviated yrs . Yours truly, yours to command, etc., phrases of conventional politene immediately preceding the signature at the end of a letter: hence sometimes used playfully by a speaker in alluding to himself. Yours truly , sir, has an eye for a fine woman and a fine horse. W. Collins , Armadale, II. 168. ( Hoppe . ) yourself, yourselves (yör-self', -selvz'), pron . [ selven , etc.: see your and self .] An emphatic or reflexive form of the second personal pronoun, ye, you. Yourself is used when a single person is addre ed (compare ye , your ), and yourselves when more than one. As nominatives, the words are used for emphasis, either in apposition with you or alone. Ye se well your- seluyn the so the at your egh, Hit is no bote here to byde for baret with-oute. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L. 12333. I knowe yow alle as wele or beter than ye do youre- self . Merlin (E. E. T. Š.), ii. 141. Conversation is but carving; Carve for all, yourself is starving. Swift , Verses on a Lady. In the objective case yourself or yourselves is commonly reflexive: when emphatic it is usually in apposition with you. Compare himself , herself , etc. Call forth your actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves. Shak., M. N. D., 12. 16. "Stay then a little," answered Julian, "here, And keep yourself , none knowing, to yourself ." Tennyson, Lover's Tale, Golden Supper.