Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E'VEN, adv. [ev'n.]

1. Noting a level or equality, or emphatically, a like manner or degree. As it has been done to you, even so shall it be done to others. Thou art a soldier even to Cato's wishes, that is, your qualities, as a soldier, are equal to his wishes.
2. Noting equality or sameness of time; hence emphatically, the very time. I knew the facts, even when I wrote to you.
3. Noting, emphatically, identity of person. And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters on the earth. Gen. vi.
4. Likewise; in like manner. Here all their rage, and ev'n their murmurs cease. Pope
5. So much as. We are not even sensible of the change.
6. Noting the application of something to that which is less probably included in the phrase; or bringing something within a description, which is unexpected. The common people are addicted to this vice, and even the great are not free from it. He made several discoveries which are new, even to the learned. Here also we see the sense of equality, or bringing to a level. So in these phrases, I shall even let it pass. I shall even do more, we observe the sense of bringing the mind or will to a level with what is to be done.