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quon⋅dam

  [kwon-duhm, -dam]
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–adjective
former; onetime: his quondam partner.
Origin:
1580–90; < L
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quon·dam   (kwŏn'dəm, -dām')   
adj.  That once was; former: "the quondam drunkard, now perfectly sober" (Bret Harte).

[Latin, from quom, when; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.]
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Quondam

Quon"dam\, a. [L., formerly.] Having been formerly; former; sometime. "This is the quondam king." --Shak.

Quondam

Quon"dam\, n. A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] "Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office." --Latimer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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quondam 
1535, from L., lit. "formerly," used in Eng. as a noun meaning "former holder of some office or position."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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