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Examples of quondam
quondam
As with cricket, they invented a game that they play against quondam underlings.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Padilla's evidently forced recantation only further estranged Castro from his quondam admirers.
From the time.com
The quondam king could go to prison for up to 25 years.
From the time.com
Brodie Clark, the quondam head of the UK border force, appeared before the House of Commons home affairs committee.
From the guardian.co.uk
Fuit, fuit ista quondam in hac repub.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Quondam editor of The Spectator, political journalist D'Ancona has also churned out three thrillers, and a couple of books about early Christian theology.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Starting in 1977 with a desolate pub encounter between Jerry and Emma, quondam lovers, it tracks slowly backwards to the beginning of their affair in 1968, marking up the intervening betrayals.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Erstwhile(a): belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"
- John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (1494-1553), commonly known as Lord Quondam, was the eldest son and heir of Sir Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley and his wife Lady Cicely (Willoughby) Sutton.
- Former; once; at one time
- Having been formerly; former; sometime
