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selfsame - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'selfsame' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Selfsame [ a.]
- Precisely the same; the very same; identical.

Meaning of 'selfsame' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . selfsame [ s]
Meaning (1):
- being the exact same one; not any other:
Example in sentence:
  • on this very spot;
  • saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers;
  • the themes of his stories are one and the same;
  • the very man I want to see;
  • the very thing he said yesterday;
  • this is the identical room we stayed in before