selfsame
IPA: sˈɛɫfsˈeɪm
noun
- (archaic) Chiefly preceded by the: precisely the same person or thing.
adjective
- Chiefly preceded by the: precisely the same; the very same; the same not only in being similar but in being identical.
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Examples of "selfsame" in Sentences
- I was thinking the selfsame thing.
- The selfsame thread has been removed multiple times.
- Concrete objects are the selfsame objects in the world.
- Those selfsame stars soon feature as wax models in the museum.
- Page 109: The term selfsame occurs only once without a hyphen.
- As luck would have it, Champneys' PR adviser was the selfsame Mr Wallis.
- I don't like you doing the selfsame things that you upbraid me for doing.
- Indeed, they are very much in line with the selfsame policies and guidelines.
- These selfsame strategies are used by the bacteria in their struggle to defeat our best antibiotics.
- She went to her death in the name of the selfsame god your royal father sought to placate with her blood.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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