even so
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: e'en so
Senses: examples: text: The colors are a bit bright. Even so, I love this room's design.
text: "Why not? What's wrong with rabbits? Are they any worse than a neurotic, revolutionary humanity, full of nervous hate?"
"But we're not rabbits, even so," said Hammond.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 4, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
text: [T]he American Airlines pilots union softened its stand and offered to accept lower wages for flying smaller "regional jets." Even so, airline management rejected the offer.
ref: 1997 February 13, Scot Woods, “The Not-So Friendly Skies”, in Time, retrieved 27 Oct 2015:
text: But reform legislation enacted in 2010 . . . created a system of subsidies to help families pay for coverage. Even so, insurance doesn’t come cheap.
ref: 2009 December 25, Paul Krugman, “Tidings of Comfort”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Oct 2015:
synonyms: word: nonetheless
word: nevertheless
word: be that as it may
word: having said that
word: that said
word: all that said
word: still
word: all that said
word: anyhow
word: all the same
word: be it as it may
word: be that as it may
word: but
word: even so
word: having said that
word: howbeit
word: however
word: just the same
word: maugre
word: natheless
word: nevertheless
word: nonetheless
word: notwithstanding
word: still
word: still and all
word: that being said
word: that said
word: though
word: withal
word: yet
coordinate_terms: even though
although
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yet
glosses: In spite of that (preceding a remark (or fact) within a given discourse).
examples: text: Near-synonym: just so
text: —You don't mean to tell me that you're the very man whom they've been seeking? —Even so. 'Tis I.
text: Pistol: Trail'st thou the puissant pike?
King Henry V: Even so. What are you?
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: "I am thankful that […] no syllable of rude verse has ever profaned my lips."
"You have, then, limited your efforts to sacred song?"
"Even so. As the psalms of David exceed all other language, so does the psalmody that has been fitted to them by the divines and sages of the land, surpass all vain poetry. Happily, I may say, that I utter nothing but the thoughts and the wishes of the King of Israel himself […]"
ref: 1826, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter 2, in The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea— […], →OCLC, page 25:
text: "Hester! Hester Prynne!", said he; "is it thou? Art thou in life?"
"Even so," she answered.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 17, in The Scarlet Letter:
text: He may be thought inconsistent, and even so he is.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter 14, in The Confidence Man:
text: What a strange thing, I mused, was this smoking, that takes a man suddenly, be he in the court, the camp, or the grove, grips him like an Afreet, and whirls him off to do its imperious behests! Would it be even so with myself, I wondered, in those unknown grown-up years to come?
ref: 1895, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 13, in The Golden Age:
glosses: Exactly thus: in exactly such a manner (as said or surmised); of precisely such a nature; precisely so.