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quinci

quinci

Italian

Adverb

quinci (obsolete)

  1. hence, from here
  2. henceforth
  3. (figuratively) thus, therefore
  4. (in correlation with quindi) this way, to one side (as opposed to another one)
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio, Bompiani (2001), Canto XII, p. 184 vv. 106-108:
      [...] così s'allenta la ripa che cade ¶ quivi ben ratta da l'altro girone; ¶ ma quinci e quindi l'alta pietra rade.
      [...] e'en thus attempered is the bank which falls ¶ sheer downward from the second circle there; ¶ but on this side and that the high rock graze.
    • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, I Trionfi, (1821), “Trionfo d'amore” - Chapter II, p. 146:
      Stanco già di mirar, non sazio ancora ¶ or quinci or quindi mi volgea, guardando ¶ cose ch'a ricordarle è breve l'ora.
      Weary with gazing, yet unsatisfied, ¶ I turned now this way and now that, and saw ¶ sights time will not suffice me to relate.