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Webster 1913 Edition
Our
Our
(our)
, possessive p
ron.
[AS.
ūre
our, of us; akin to ūs
us, to us, and to G. unser
our, of us, Goth. unsara
. √186. See Us
.] Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us;
The Lord is
our
defense. Ps. lxxxix. 18.
☞ When the noun is not expressed, ours is used in the same way as hers for her, yours for your, etc.; as, whose house is that? It is ours.
Our wills are
ours
, we know not how. Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Our
OUR
,Adj.
1.
Pertaining or belonging to us; as our country; our rights; our troops.2.
Ours, which is primarily the possessive case of our, is never used as an adjective, but as a substitute for the adjective and the noun to which it belongs. Your house is on a plain; ours is on a hill. This is good English, but certainly ours must be the nominative to is, or it has none.Their organs are better disposed than ours for receiving grateful impressions from sensible objects.
Here ours stands in the place of our organs, and cannot, in conformity with any rule of construction, be in the possessive case.
The same thing was done by them in suing in their courts, which is now done by us in suing in ours.