selfsame

«selfsame» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: very same — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

very same

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Exactly the same, the very same one. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say very same. The sentences use the same sense as today.

examples

• And the LORD spoke unto Moses that selfsame day, saying: (Torah DEU.32.48, JPS 1917) tree →
• And he continued, and said, "About the third cockcrow something else came to the window and said the selfsame thing, and added, 'This shall befall thy lord on his way home. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
• In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. (Torah GEN.17.26, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 11.4; corpora 11 (Torah 9, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.2 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
• And the LORD spoke unto Moses that selfsame day, saying:
• But Thou art the selfsame, and Thy years shall have no end.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «selfsame» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.