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Definition of Selfsame
1. Adjective. Being the exact same one; not any other:. "The very man I want to see"
Similar to: Same
Derivative terms: Identicalness, Identity, Selfsameness
Definition of Selfsame
1. a. Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
Definition of Selfsame
1. Adjective. Precisely the same; the very same; identical. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Selfsame
1. identical [adj] - See also: identical
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selfsame
Literary usage of Selfsame
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During by Walter James Shelton (1922)
"—But it's not the selfsame bird.— No: perished to dust is he. . . . As also are
those who heard That song with me. ..."
2. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1858)
"... and always finds the same people in the same places saying the selfsame things;
and saying a thousand times things not worth saying once ! ..."
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