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Italian
Pronunciation
Adverb
unque (obsolete)
- Alternative form of unqua
1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Purgatorio, lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:E un di loro incominciò: "Chiunque
tu se’, così andando, volgi ’l viso:
pon mente se di là mi vedesti unque".- And one of them began: "Whoever you are, going like that, turn your eyes: think about if you ever saw me on the other side."