What does "quondam" mean?
Quondam: Having been formerly; former; sometime. "This is the quondam king." Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] "Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office." Latimer.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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