Yours
[jɔːz;jʊəz] or [jʊəz]
Definition
(pron.) See the Note under Your.
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Definition
pron. poss. of you not followed by a noun: used in many idiomatic senses as e.g. 'you and yours ' your family property 'yours of yesterday ' your letter &c.—Yours faithfully sincerely truly &c. Yours to command &c. are forms used in letters just before the signature as phrases of conventional politeness for the most part: also sometimes used by a vulgar speaker in alluding to himself.
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Examples
- I have my sort of life apart from yours. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And then I asked him if I might come to see you; because I felt so much for his trouble and yours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I say that these monstrous laws of yours will bring a curse upon the land--God will not let such wickedness endure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His place is there as well as yours, and the children need him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Could you commission any friend of yours to bring me a pair, if you've no further use for 'em? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- No, John Carter, it is useless, she cried, hopelessly, I may never be yours while Sab Than lives. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- And who is that nice good-natured looking creature with her--a flame of yours? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If you would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Ah, young master, there's more changes than yours. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I know none whose knowledge, sagacity, and impartiality qualify him so thoroughly for such a service as yours do you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Humphrey expressed his sorrow at Clym's condition, and added, Now, if yours was low-class work like mine, you could go on with it just the same. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Now, Betteredge, exert those sharp wits of yours, and observe the conclusion to which the Colonel's instructions point! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Phaidor-- she stumbled a little here, and then in a very low voice, Phaidor already is yours. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Miss Bates's powerful, argumentative mind might have strengthened yours. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Yours very sincerely, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I require no assistance but yours. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Yours is not the nature to find pleasure in gutter-raking. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You do not know, John Carter, he said to me, how we of Helium love this son of yours. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Yours lives in London, I think. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That dear good wife of yours has always been good to him; and he's fonder of her than he is of his . William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He is lively, you are serious; but so much the better: his spirits will support yours. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions, and yours are faithful servants. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- What is it but the worst and last form of intellectualism, this love of yours for passion and the animal instincts? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To be your wife and live in Paris would be heaven to me; but I would rather live with you in a hermitage here than not be yours at all. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Oh, Willoughby, Willoughby, could this be yours! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- My Maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- My personal independence is as important to me as yours is to you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What business is it of yours, then? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- No other boy in the heath has had such a bonfire as yours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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