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| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| quondam (adj.) |
| is a word borrowed from Latin but now Standard English that means “former, one-time,” as in She is a quondam officer of the firm. It’s not italicized any longer, but it’s a rather low frequency term, in some ways self-consciously old-fashioned. See ERSTWHILE; WHILOM. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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