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Definition of selfsame adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

selfsame

adjective

NAmE//ˈsɛlfseɪm//

[only before noun] the, this, etc. selfsame…

used to emphasize that two people or things are the same synonym identical Jane had been wondering that selfsame thing.

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