0 of or in an earlier time; before the present time, or in the past:
Among the Central Tibetan languages is Central Tibetan, the quondam official language of Tibet.
Their Master was deserted wholesale by the crowd of quondam admirers and followers.
They saw no more of their quondam guide.
They receive an extra bonus the first time that their quondam charge gains a first prize.
UK William Hague, former Tory leader and quondam youthful political infant prodigy, has written a biography of William Pitt the Younger.
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