E'EN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does e'en mean? 

• E'EN (adverb)
  The adverb E'EN has 1 sense:

1. even

  Familiarity information: E'EN used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• E'EN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Even

 Context examples 

But Hannah, poor woman! could not stride the drifts so well as I: her legs are not quite so long: so I must e'en leave you to your sorrows.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I acknowledged no natural claim on Adele's part to be supported by me, nor do I now acknowledge any, for I am not her father; but hearing that she was quite destitute, I e'en took the poor thing out of the slime and mud of Paris, and transplanted it here, to grow up clean in the wholesome soil of an English country garden.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)