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("In affirmative clauses, tending to become a mere intensive without comparative force, and sometimes emphasized in speaking and writing"), which they take all the way back to Beowulf ("þæt we hine swa godne gretan moton"), and there's another startlingly modern example from 1741: Richardson, Pamela III.
languagehat.com: SO. 2005
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