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(adjective) former, sometime (from Latin)

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quondam



like quondam beautiful effects with paint

I thought it was synonymous with "sundry" for some reason

—p.116 by Annie Dillard
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6 years, 11 months ago

to strike quondam attractive moral postures

huh

—p.44 by Annie Dillard
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1 year, 1 month ago


After a complicated choreography of alliances and conspiracies, Napoleon’s quondam nephew Louis Bonaparte was elected president by a rural majority

—p.168 Marx’s Lost Theory: The Politics of Nationalism in 1848 (155) by Mike Davis
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2 years, 9 months ago


the unaccountable success of his quondam best friend

what a lovely (if superfluous) word

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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9 years ago