selfsame Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite being the exact same one; not any other:
    identical; very.
    • 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

WordNet

Self"same adjective
Etymology
Self, a. + same.
Definitions
  1. Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
    His servant was healed in the selfsame hour. Matt. viii. 13.

Webster 1913