Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet E'EN

Definition av E'EN

1. (poetiskt) variant av even

Exempel på hur man kan använda E'EN i en mening

• In contracted forms, an apostrophe is generally used in place of the elided graphemes, for example, e'en and even, e'er and iver (ever), eneu and eneuch (enough), lea and leave, ne'er and niver (never), ne'er's day and new year's day, nor'land and northland.
• Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, / And e'en his failings lean'd to Virtue's side; / But in his duty prompt at every call, / He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all.
• in briefe, what heavy and hard conflicts, and what a tedious travell I have had (as God knowes) in the producing of it, I dare promise my selfe it would make your yielding heart e'en bleed to thinke on't.
• In her poem On Reading Swift's Works, she praises Jonathan Swift's "perfect style" but condemns him for reprimanding "helpless women", writing "Ungenerous bard, whom not e'en Stella's charms / Thy vengeful satire of its sting disarms! / Say when thou, dipp'st thy keenest pen in gall, / Why must it still on helpless women fall?".

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