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Definition of "self-same" [self-same]

  • Very same; exactly the same. (adjective)

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Use "self-same" in a sentence
  • "He suggests that Diab's bail conditions are sufficiently onerous to raise a red flag about his "potential danger to Canadians," but somehow misses the fact that those self-same bail conditions permitted Diab to teach at Carleton in the first place."
  • "The Canadian Border Services Agency is on the verge of deporting Nay Myo Hein back to that country to face possible execution for deserting from the armed forces run by those self-same generals."
  • "The designers like to say they are “suffused with the self-same light of the serenity and elegance of April”."
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