Selfsame

Word SELFSAME
Character 8
Hyphenation self same
Pronunciations /ˈsɛlf.seɪm/

Definitions and meanings of "Selfsame"

What do we mean by selfsame?

Being the very same; identical. adjective

The very same; identical.

Precisely the same; the very same; identical. adjective

Precisely the same; the very same; identical. adjective

Being the exact same one; not any other: adjective

Precisely the same; the very same; identical.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Selfsame

The word "selfsame" in example sentences

Page 109: The term selfsame occurs only once without a hyphen. ❋ Giordano Bruno (1574)

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. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

In The Lifesize Zoetrope [watch] director Mark Simon Hewis creates selfsame out of white t-shirted extras in a fairground centrifuge. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many of the current tea partiers were recipients of this selfsame instruction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I almost worked once with the Bergmans... when I agreed to produce a film which composer Michel Legrande wanted to direct called Blind Love, with a screenplay written by the selfsame Bob Merrill and music composed by the Bergmans. ❋ Jay Weston (2011)

She went to her death in the name of the selfsame god your royal father sought to placate with her blood. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

These selfsame strategies are used by the bacteria in their struggle to defeat our best antibiotics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The selfsame witch who made legs for a mermaid could make a tail for me. ❋ Mllelaurel (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And now here you are, asking for the selfsame song. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As luck would have it, Champneys' PR adviser was the selfsame Mr Wallis. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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." ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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