单词	quondam
释义	quondam /ˈkwɒndəm / /ˈkwɒndam/ adjective [attributive] formal That once was; former: quondam dissidents joined the establishment... According to his brief official biography, this quondam insurance broker entered the House of Lords a year after inheriting a title from his grandfather, in 1986. To this quondam mid-Warwickshire suburbanite, who liked to think that his Cotswold relatives conferred a kind of rusticity, it brought back his own first encounter with Bristol some time in the spring of 1956, just turned seventeen. Thus they would not have mindlessly and naively misjudged the imperialist treaty diplomacy of the Soviet Union, quondam ally of Nazi Germany. Origin Late 16th century: from Latin, 'formerly'.
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