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Ever so   /ˈɛvər soʊ/   Listen
adverb
Ever  adv.  (Sometimes contracted into e'er)  
1.
At any time; at any period or point of time. "No man ever yet hated his own flesh."
2.
At all times; through all time; always; forever. "He shall ever love, and always be The subject of by scorn and cruelty."
3.
Without cessation; continually. Note: Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of enforcement. "His the old man e'er a son?" "To produce as much as ever they can."
Ever and anon, now and then; often. See under Anon.
Ever is one, continually; constantly. (Obs.)
Ever so, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; used to intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated adjective or adverb. See Never so, under Never. "Let him be ever so rich." "And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this, if God has placed him wrong." "You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters."
For ever, eternally. See Forever.
For ever and a day, emphatically forever. "She (Fortune) soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day."
Or ever (for or ere), before. See Or, ere. (Archaic) "Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!" Note: Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen, but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever memorable, ever watchful, ever burning.






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"Ever so" Quotes from Famous Books



... true, was more striking and constant in her than in Glendower; for in love, man, be he ever so generous, is always outdone. Yet even when in moments of extreme passion and conflict the strife broke from his breast into words, never once was his discontent vented upon her, nor his reproaches lavished on any but fortune ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... comfortably on that sum and support aged parents and graceless relations. Little touches told Mr. Lewis the whole story. I knew very well that Mr. Remington would be entirely abroad about such a social existence as ours in Weston, travel he ever so ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... coming together of two aged twin sisters, each of whom has been living for years in ignorance of the other's existence, so that they meet at last almost as ghosts. Hence the title. But you will not need to be told that there is ever so much more in the nine hundred pages than this. There are the children Dave and Dolly, for example; likewise Uncle Mo', and any quantity of humble London types; not to mention the group that includes Lady Gwen, and Adrian Torrens, and a score of others, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914 • Various

... punished the avarice of the owners, by a rot among the sheep, which has destroyed vast numbers of them; to us it might have seemed more just had it fell on the owners themselves. But suppose the sheep should increase ever so much, their price is not like to fall; since though they cannot be called a monopoly, because they are not engrossed by one person, yet they are in so few hands, and these are so rich, that as they are not pressed to sell them sooner than they have a mind to it, so ...
— Ideal Commonwealths • Various

... of it;" she nodded toward the yawning gulf, full of briars and blackened brick and timbers. "The house was burned up—no, I mean down—no, I mean all burned, both ways, long ago; ever 'n' ever 'n' ever so long." ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards


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