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quondam

quondam is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Having been formerly; former; sometime. "This is the quondam king." Shak.
  2. 2.A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] "Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office." Latimer.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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