(obj.) The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.
(v. t.) To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.
(v. i.) To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Constant ribbing about his private life was compromising Deayton's position as the show's "holier-than-thou" host, who showed no mercy towards politicians or celebrities caught in a similar position, the corporation added.
(3) Similarities between Kohut's empathic relatedness and Buber's I-Thou are demonstrated as well as some congruence in their clinical views.
(4) At CPAC, conservatives dedicated an entire panel to “The Future of Marriage.” One could be forgiven for assuming it tackled the issue via the sub-topic “Gays, and the Ickiness Thereof,” because that was the default assumption among those attending CPAC as part of an ongoing More Jaded Than Thou contest.
(5) "Lest any holier-than-thou activists and politicians from other parties should forget, this is not just a Lib Dem issue, it is one that confronts women in all parties and in all professions.
(6) Members of the group will be on church steps again on Sunday, just as they were last week when dozens of Polish Catholics walked out of mass in protest at a bishops’ message stating that abortion is contrary to the “thou shalt not kill” commandment.
(7) Worse, it actually helps deflect anger from the Nigerian politicians robbing their own people to the “hypocritical west which acts holier than thou while helping steal our money”.
(8) Basically the problem is that the full I-Thou form in terms of Buber and Gebsattel can no longer be realized.
(9) The lesson is clear: when push comes to shove, obedience to God trumps human decency, to say nothing of obedience to the next commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
(10) Such was the thou-shalt-not-pass determination as Pavey clenched her teeth round the last lap that it was a minor wonder she was able to smile so quickly afterwards.
(11) It was headed with the following Shakespeare quotation: "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
(12) Now he's a social-smoking, foodier-than-thou critic at a "Food Rave".
(13) Why you should listen : “Answer not a fool according to his folly,” it says in Proverbs, “lest thou also be like unto him.” Jones’s appearance on Rogan’s show is a cautionary tale.
(14) Winnicott's notion of the creation of the subject in the psychological space between mother and infant involves a conception of the on-going constitution of the subject in the simultaneity of forms of dialectical tension between at-one-ment and separateness, internality and externality, I and me, I and Thou.
(15) She had read Martin Buber 's I and Thou , and the collected works of Carl Jung , and become fascinated with archetypes and astrology.
(16) According to the late Peter Wright, whose book Spycatcher revealed many of the secrets that he had carefully hoarded during his 22 years as an MI5 officer, new recruits would be expected to take to heart its 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not get caught."
(17) Goop You wouldn't believe the vegan snack I've just had…Gwyneth Paltrow, creator of holier-than-thou lifestyle guide Goop.
(18) Even at a time when other aspects of foreign policy – such as over Iran – are breaking with blind whither-thou-goest Atlanticism, the ossified Orwellian terms of the nuclear discussion go unchallenged by government and opposition alike.
(19) And for the hopefuls lining up outside the passport office: thou shalt not quibble about freedom of speech.
(20) It's when Rosalind says to Celia: "O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love.
Thyself
Definition:
(pron.) An emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with thou; as, thou thyself shalt go; that is, thou shalt go, and no other. It is sometimes used, especially in the predicate, without thou, and in the nominative as well as in the objective case.
Example Sentences:
(1) This motto--which is merely a rewording of the command to "love thy neighbor as thyself"--is compatible with man's natural structure, and although it is based on altruistic egoism, it could hardly be attacked as unethical.
(2) Reynolds doesn't particularly appreciate questions that creep into his personal life, although when I later find out that the words simply say "Know Thyself" and that the gun is in fact an old naval cannon, I wonder if he's being slightly sensitive.
(3) Critical self-reflection--the desire to know thyself, warts and all--may introduce a self-deprecating attributional bias that can undermine self-perceived altruism, even following helping for which one receives only intrinsic self-rewards.
(4) Know Thyself or Journal of Empirical Psychology (Gnothi Sauton oder Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde), 1783-1793, was the first of its kind--concentrating on nervous and mental disturbances and marking the beginning of periodical neuropsychiatric publications.