Word
e'en
Phoneticseen
Definition
adv. a short, poetic way to say 'even'. You will mostly see this in old books or poems.
adv. a poetic or dialectal contraction of 'even'. Used primarily in verse to maintain a specific meter or to evoke an archaic tone.
Examples
“The sun sets e'en now over the hills.”
“The poet wrote of a love that would last e'en after the stars had faded from the sky.”
“Though the castle stood in ruins, e'en the crumbling stones seemed to whisper stories of the kings who once walked its halls.”
Examples
simple
“The sun sets e'en now over the hills.”
contextual
“The poet wrote of a love that would last e'en after the stars had faded from the sky.”
complex
“Though the castle stood in ruins, e'en the crumbling stones seemed to whisper stories of the kings who once walked its halls.”
Usage
A literary contraction; the apostrophe replaces the letter 'v'.