Meaning of even | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Exactly; just; fully.
   archaic, not-comparable
2. At least, even.
3. In reality (used to imply an extreme example in the case mentioned).
   not-comparable
4. Used to emphasise a comparative.
   not-comparable
5. Used to indicate a further degree of comparison.
   not-comparable
6. Rather; that is (used to signal a correction of a previous utterance).
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“I fulfilled my instructions even as I had promised.”

“You are leaving tonight? — Even so.”

“This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.”

“But on the occasion in question, those dents looked deeper, even as his nervous step that morning left a deeper mark.”

“Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.”

“Did you even make it through the front door?”

“That was before I was even born.”

“He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.”

“Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.”

“He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.”

“Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.”

“I was strong before, but now I am even stronger.”

“Bob is taller than Alice, but Cameron is even taller than Bob.”

“My favorite actor is Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicholson, even.”

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