ipsissima verba
Americanadverb
noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of ipsissima verba
First recorded in 1800–10; from Latin ipsissima, neuter plural of ipsissimus “the very same” (superlative of ipse “oneself, the very one”) + verba, plural of verbum “word”; cf. ipso facto ( def. ), verbal ( def. )
Example Sentences
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We have the ipsissima verba, the exact words of Jesus.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this case the officers of revenge are his ipsissima verba.
From The Lady of the Shroud by Stoker, Bram
In reporting conversations, for instance, I do not profess to reproduce the ipsissima verba of the speakers, but merely to give the effect and purport of their discourses.
From The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales by Dent, John Charles
The preceding narrative is given in the ipsissima verba of the good old clergyman, under whose hand it was delivered to Doctor Hesselius.
From In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
One of the Aramaic words, which the church cherished from the first as the ipsissima verba of Jesus, was Abba.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
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