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Definition of First person
1. Noun. Pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur.
Definition of First person
1. Noun. (grammar) Forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur. ¹
2. Noun. A form of narrative writing using verbs in the first person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the narrator. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of First Person
Literary usage of First person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In the third lament, as well, the speech of a single subject in the first person
alternates with the speech of several persons represented by "we" and with ..."
2. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"The reduced form of the first person pronoun /*eo/ < EGO may have ... In Mozarabic
the first person pronoun also appears in the form mibi, clearly based on ..."
3. The Grammar of English Grammars: With an Introduction, Historical and by Goold Brown (1858)
"And how can the first person be "the person WHO speaks," when every word of this
... But nay: such authors know not what the first person in grammar is. ..."
4. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"... so that the Spirit receiving the Godhead from the Father who is the first
Person, cannot be tho first ; receiving the same from the Son, ..."
5. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1873)
"A Book to bo suggestion that he should write it in the first person, by first
person. way of change, had been thrown out by me, which he took at once very ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... and after his return to England he was the first person to defend Sir John
Moore's proceedings in his ' A few Remarks explanatory of the Motives which ..."
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