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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At the same time as
Example:
the building collapsed just as he arrived
Synonyms:
even as; just as
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Context examples:
Far away in the south-west I could see a dark line on the water, which grew even as I looked at it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He had given her some hints of it the last spring in town; he had gone so far even as to say, Can we retrench?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I know, and you know, that were I once dead you could and would set free my immortal spirit, even as you did my poor Lucy's.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Even as I looked, there came another red flash and another report that sent the echoes clattering, and one more round-shot whistled through the air.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She made him, by her acceptance, as happy even as he is deserving.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“—if his faults cannot,” I went on, “be banished from your remembrance, in such an hour; look at that figure, even as one you have never seen before, and render it some help!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I laid my knife upon the floor, and I stretched myself out beside him, that I might whisper in his ear one or two little things of which I wished to remind him; but even as I did so, he gave a gasp and was gone.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She rated her own claims to comfort as low even as Mrs. Norris could; and when Sir Thomas soon afterwards, just opening the door, said, Fanny, at what time would you have the carriage come round? she felt a degree of astonishment which made it impossible for her to speak.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Charming as were all Mrs. Radcliffe's works, and charming even as were the works of all her imitators, it was not in them perhaps that human nature, at least in the Midland counties of England, was to be looked for.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
