Hypertext Webster Gateway: "selfsame"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Selfsame \Self"same\, a. [Self, a. + same.]
Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
His servant was healed in the selfsame hour. --Matt.
viii. 13.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
selfsame
adj : being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the
identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his
stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame
quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the
very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to
see" [syn: {identical}, {one and the same(p)}, {selfsame(a)},
{very(a)}]
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