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Another word for selfsame

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Adjective

  1. Being one and not another or others; not different in nature or identity

      1. In a high degree; extremely:
      2. Truly; absolutely:
      3. Used in titles:
      1. Being the very one; identical:
      2. Similar in kind, quality, quantity, or degree:
      3. Conforming in every detail:
      1. Being the same:
      2. Exactly equal and alike:
      3. Of or relating to a twin or twins developed from the same fertilized ovum and having the same genetic makeup and closely similar appearance; monozygotic.
      1. Being or constituting a diplomatic action or diplomatic language in which two or more governments agree to use the same forms in their relations with other governments.
      2. Identical.
    See also:

    same

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Another word for selfsame

Modifier
      1. Having a resemblance in appearance or nature; alike though not identical.
      2. Having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional. Used of geometric figures:
      1. Equal, as in value, force, or meaning.
      2. Having similar or identical effects.
      3. Being essentially equal, all things considered:
      1. Being the very one; identical:
      2. Similar in kind, quality, quantity, or degree:
      3. Conforming in every detail:
    See also:

    same

    equal

    alike

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Sentence Examples

  • selfsame reason they do not exert sufficiently powerful pressure on the Socialist Party.

  • It follows that we must call this selfsame essence, at once individual and universal, substance - a conclusion, however, which Aristotle never drew in so many words, though he continued always to call essence substance, and definition a knowledge of substance.

  • Each natural substance is a formal cause, as being what it is; a material cause, as having passive power to be changed; an efficient cause, as having active power to change, by communicating the selfsame essence into different matter so as to produce therein a homogeneous effect in the same species; and a final cause, as an end to be realized.

  • selfsame day.

  • They sailed there, without effort, completed their task, and returned home the selfsame day.

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