QUONDAM

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Having been formerly; former; sometime. "This is the quondam king." Shak.

2.
n.

A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] "Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office." Latimer.


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