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quondam
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synonyms: ci-devant ???
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The captains of industry had turned upon the middle class. The employers' associations, that had helped the captains of industry to tear and rend labor, were now torn and rent by their quondam allies.
Jack London. The Iron Heel
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As she turned the corner of the schoolhouse she came plump upon the quondam drunkard, now perfectly sober, and inexpressibly sheepish and guilty-looking.
Francis Bret Harte. The Idyl of Red Gulch
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The density and permanence of the mansion were, of course, at ironic variance with the fact that the quondam master of the house,
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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little Felix became the object of numberless greetings. It appeared that he had been highly popular among his quondam guests.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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its roots have lost their quondam vigour while the stuff that comes away from it is stagnant, acid and inoperative.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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