Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A contraction of even. Formerly often written ene.
- n. A contraction of even. Formerly often written ene.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. A contraction for
even . See even.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. even.
Examples
“And glorious — e'en though thou capricious king, —”
“Disclaim'd her love, e'en while she felt the sting;”
“And when we reached the castle, he left me at the gate with no more than a softly mocking, "Good e'en, Mistress Sassenach.”
“He clapped his hat upon his head and turned to the door, wishing me a brief "Good e'en," before disappearing into the light and bustle of the inn.”
“Therefore she loves thy likeness, e'en as I love Bane's likeness.”
“He fooled e'en his own parents," White said, thought - fully.”
“And lo, it did pass that the Allblogger's day job didst task him mightily, and yea, his labours didst take him to most unseemly climes where e'en Frost Giants dost fear to venture, let alone broadband signals.”
“May I meet my brother face to face, and encounter him hand to hand, e'en to the death, for coming to waste my country!”
“O destiny! to what a life of pain and sorrow didst thou bear me beyond all men that ever were, e'en from the very first; yea for when I was yet unborn, or ever I had left my mother's womb and seen the light, Apollo foretold to Laius that I should become my father's murderer; woe is me!”
“But when e'en thus there seemed some room for fear that she might bear some noble lord a child by stealth and”
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Whether 'Tis Nobler: Words From Hamlet
nay, 'tis, thee, haste, ho, liegemen, o, hath, holla, entreated, apparition, tush and 104 more...
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