Selfsame has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
Adjective
1
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"
2
Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
Example Sentences
"this is the identical room we stayed in before"
adjective
"the themes of his stories are one and the same"
adjective
"saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"
adjective
"on this very spot"
adjective
"the very thing he said yesterday"
adjective
"the very man I want to see"
adjective