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[ adjective ] being the exact same one; not any other:
Examples "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" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)In a certain perfectly definite way , the method and the theme of his stories are one_and_the_same . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)Afraid at one_and_the_same time that his work might be turned_down - which would be a blow to his pride even_though no_one knew he was the author - and that the work would be accepted , and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in_spite_of himself . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)To him they were one_and_the_same . Related terms |
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