[
UK
/sˈɛlfseɪm/
]
ADJECTIVE
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being the exact same one; not any other:
saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers
the very thing he said yesterday
the themes of his stories are one and the same
this is the identical room we stayed in before
the very man I want to see
on this very spot
How To Use selfsame In A Sentence
- Those selfsame horses were slow and sedate but got things done in their own good time.
- 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
- These structures are severally infundibuliform processes, so fashioned by the original descent of the testicle; and, therefore, as the bowel follows the track of the testicle, it becomes, of course, invested by the selfsame parts in the selfsame manner. Surgical Anatomy
- Check out this slightly less adulatory leader from the selfsame paper.
- The men and cows, the hens, horses and sheep are of the selfsame order as those which the American school boy draws upon his slate, but there is abundant evidence of close observation, of a humor far keener and broader than the power of expression which bodies it forth.
- Later, descendants of these selfsame clerics would carry their precious cargo to European monasteries where the Italian, the German and the Frenchman waited to be enlightened.
- Many, however, are the selfsame people who reviled and ridiculed the Celtic chief executive throughout his five years.
- Yes, "antisocialist," but note also that these rights, in the selfsame clause, are called The Nation: Top Stories
- These selfsame Bengals pasted a very respectable Denver team.
- 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