EVEN SO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does even so mean? 

• EVEN SO (adverb)
  The adverb EVEN SO has 1 sense:

1. despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)

  Familiarity information: EVEN SO used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVEN SO (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)

Synonyms:

all the same; at the same time; even so; however; nevertheless; nonetheless; notwithstanding; still; withal; yet

Context example:

granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go

 Context examples 

“Trot,” returned my aunt gravely, “I can't say. I have no right to tell you even so much. She has never confided it to me, but I suspect it.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If they are no longer little, you can do even more with them—my children are grown, but even so, my best and happiest memories are always when we spend time together.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Even so, it was a hard fight, and it aroused the last latent remnants of Buck’s ferocity.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Even so, they can be dangerous if they press on vital organs, such as your brain.

(Benign Tumors, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Even so, ancient Venus still received about 40 percent more sunlight than Earth does today.

(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)

“I can see now that it is even so,” said John, examining the parchment again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We were taking the hill at a quiet trot, but even so, we made the carrier, walking in the shadow of his huge, broad-wheeled, canvas-covered waggon, stare at us in amazement.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had not even so much as a cow, and still less money to buy one, and yet he and his wife did so wish to have one.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Emma!” cried he, looking eagerly at her, “are you, indeed?”—but checking himself—“No, no, I understand you—forgive me—I am pleased that you can say even so much.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Poor, puny things, not fit to stir a step beyond papa's park gates: nor to go even so far without mama's permission and guardianship!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)