Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being the very same; identical.
from The Century Dictionary.
- The very same; identical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Precisely the
same ; the very same;identical .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being the exact same one; not any other:
Etymologies
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Examples
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Page 109: The term selfsame occurs only once without a hyphen.
The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem Giordano Bruno 1574
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There is further the case in which a writer, when relating something about a person, suddenly breaks off and converts himself into that selfsame person.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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She went to her death in the name of the selfsame god your royal father sought to placate with her blood.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Best of all was the selfsame Evil CIA Lady's withering "You're the best England's got?" followed by Gwen's right hook as she points out: "I'm Welsh."
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But these are the selfsame people who every day for the last six months have been reading about the president's semen on this young girl's dress.
Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White 2010
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As luck would have it, Champneys' PR adviser was the selfsame Mr Wallis.
Sir Paul Stephenson's resignation: Sir Paul's Parthian shot | Editorial 2011
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These selfsame strategies are used by the bacteria in their struggle to defeat our best antibiotics.
Boing Boing 2009
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It is a great task to transmute feeling and sensation into speech, written or spoken, that will, in turn, in him who reads or listens, transmute itself back into the selfsame feeling and sensation.
Chapter 14 2010
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She went to her death in the name of the selfsame god your royal father sought to placate with her blood.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Old lines about knights at table in the great banquet halls, and of those above the salt and below the salt, and of Vikings feasting fresh from sea and ripe for battle, came to me; and I knew that the old times were not dead and that we belonged to that selfsame ancient breed.
Chapter 16 2010
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