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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)
Example:
granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go
Synonyms:
all the same; at the same time; even so; however; nevertheless; nonetheless; notwithstanding; still; withal; yet
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Context examples:
Even so, the concentration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is still on the rise.
(World's forests increasingly taking up more carbon, National Science Foundation)
But even so it was twenty-five to eight as we passed Big Ben, and eight struck as we tore down the Brixton Road.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even so, they were twice dragged backward by the weight of the sled, and slid and fell down the hill, the living and the dead, the haul-ropes and the sled, in ghastly entanglement.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Even so, he was crowded until navigating the room was a difficult task.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Even so.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She became a pest to him, like a policeman following him around the stable and the hounds, and, if he even so much as glanced curiously at a pigeon or chicken, bursting into an outcry of indignation and wrath.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions. Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
To take the first example to hand, I very clearly perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted even so self-evident a thing as that.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I do not know of any other designs that he had formed; but he was in such a hurry to be gone, and his spirits so greatly discomposed, that I had difficulty in finding out even so much as this.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Even so, why not choose another, better day? I have the perfect one for you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
