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  1. adverb In the condition or manner expressed or indicated; thus: Hold the brush so.
  2. adverb To the amount or degree expressed or understood; to such an extent: She was so weary that she fell.
  3. adverb To a great extent; to such an evident degree: But the idea is so obvious.
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  • Men_-s, MIND, and men_-sura, MEASURE, are etymologically cognate words; so the English words MEAN-ing, THE MIND that is in a thing_, and MEAN, the average or measure, or the dia-_meter_, or through-_measure of a thing. —  Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • Just so is Hebrew poetry also filled with the presence and glory of God. —  Companion to the Bible
  • I was not sorry; he had been so,--so--I can't explain I know," Eloise said, remembering her father's manner toward this weak, timid woman, who went on: "Then Col. Crompton came and brought me home. —  The Cromptons
  • Oh, Bobby, you're so--so ordinary BOBBY. —  Second Plays
  • And O'Neill said I was a wild man to talk so, that if I knew any of these people, personally, I'd never judge them so--so unkindly.... It was a long time before I saw ... how right he might be.... And that's what I tried to say to you the other day--when I spoke of knowing the people_. —  V. V.'s Eyes
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  1. Middle English, from Old English swā; see swo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also Scots sae, sa; from Middle English so, soo, sa, a contraction (with loss of w, as also in the modern form, as pronounced, of two, from Anglo-Saxon twā) of swo, swa, sua, squa, zuo, from Anglo-Saxon swā = Old Saxon sō = OFries, sō, sā = Middle Dutch soo, Dutch zoo = Middle Low German sō Low German so = Old High German Middle High German sō = Icelandic suā, later svō, svo, so = Swedish så = Danish saa, so, = Gothic (Moesogothic) swa, so, swē, so, just as, swa swē, just as: orig. an oblique case of a pronominal stem *swa, one's own. oneself, = Latin suus, one's own (his, heraldry its, their), = Greek ός (*σFóς), his, heraldry its, = Sanskrit sua, one's own, self, own. Cf. L. reflex se, Gothic (Moesogothic) sik, etc. (see se, sere, etc.). The element so exists in the compound also, contracted as, and in such (Scots sic, etc.), orig. a compound; also in the pronouns and adverbs whoso, whosoever, whatso, whatsoever, wheresoever, etc. See these words, especially also, as, and such.
 

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