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onques
onques
French
Alternative forms
Adverb
onques
Middle French
Alternative forms
Adverb
onques
- ever; at any point in time
- 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 12:
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ne pouvant rien refuser au commandement du meilleur pere qui fut onques
- Not being able to refuse the request of the greatest father who ever was
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ne pouvant rien refuser au commandement du meilleur pere qui fut onques
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- (with ne) never (not at any point in time)