What ye know, the same do I know.
Job. xiii. 2.
Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his
country to relieve.
Daniel.
Same is commonly preceded by the, this, or that and is often used
substantively as in the citations above. In a comparative use it is
followed by as or with.
Bees like the same odors as we do.
Lubbock.
[He] held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend.
Macaulay.
Same"li*ness (?), n. Sameness, 2. [R.] Bayne.
Same"ness, n. 1. The state of being the same; identity; absence of
difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a
sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.
"A sameness of the terms." Bp. Horsley.