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Definition of Quondam
1. Adjective. Belonging to some prior time. "Her quondam lover"
Definition of Quondam
1. a. Having been formerly; former; sometime.
2. n. A person dismissed or ejected from a position.
Definition of Quondam
1. Adjective. former; once; at one time ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quondam
1. that once was [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quondam
Literary usage of Quondam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"quondam (Latin). Former. We say, He Me quondam ... former schoolfellow ; my
quondam friend, the quondam candidate, etc, ; aUo the. quondam chancelier, etc. ..."
2. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"celebri quondam urbe et copiosa : vestros quondam nautas ... H. : quondam etiam
victis redit in praecordia virtus, V.—Of the future, one day, some day: Hie ..."
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