ourselves vs us

ourselves

pron
  • Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject. 

  • We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate. 

us

pron
  • Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we. 

  • Me. 

  • Our. 

  • Me (in all contexts). 

det
  • The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. 

How often have the words ourselves and us occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )