Quondam

Akiva replied by making himself known as his quondam servant and rejected son-in-law. ❋ Various (N/A)

Q quailing culprit quaint peculiarities qualifying service quavering voice queer tolerance quenchless despair querulous disposition [querulous = habitually complaining] questionable data questioning gaze quibbling speech quick sensibility quiescent melancholy quiet cynicism quivering excitement quixotic impulse quizzical expression quondam foe [quondam = former] ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)

Dan recalled his quondam chief's occasional flings at Allen, whom the senator from Fraser had regarded as a spoiled and erratic but innocuous trifler. ❋ Meredith Nicholson (1906)

This creature called her quondam lover, "Lennie" -- even as she herself had done, -- and she, the proud, vain woman of society and fashion shuddered at the idea that there should be even this similarity between herself and the "thing" called Violet Vere. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

And finally, Mr Norton terms his quondam counsel and referee – ❋ Unknown (1854)

"Yes, Lord Geoffrey," for so the steward always called the quondam reefer, "you does handle him more like a quick-working boat, than any on us; and so I'll take an hopportunity of just overhauling our old lieutenant's young 'uns, and of seeing what sort of craft he has set afloat for the next generation." ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

Ungrateful Lady Mary Wortley Montagu called her quondam lover, ❋ Marion Harland (1876)

Had I known you as the Wife of any but the 'quondam' Greek Professor, I should very likely have sent it to you: since it was meant for those who might wish for some insight into a Play {109} which I must think they can scarcely have been tempted into before by any previous Translation. ❋ Edward FitzGerald (1846)

A second illustration: -- Did Curio, the 'quondam' patriot, reformer, and semi-revolutionist, abjure his opinion, and yell the foremost in the hunt of persecution against his old friends and fellow-philosophists, with a cold clear predetermination, formed at one moment, of making ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)

I arrive from Tahiti, as quondam wayfarers before me. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

He had given her a free hand with it, and insisted on her wildest extravagance; and it had been his delight to tease his quondam guardians with the stubs of the checkbook she had used. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She could make a meal of sun-dried fish or a bed in the snow; yet she teased them with tantalizing details of many-course dinners, and caused strange internal dissensions to arise at the mention of various quondam dishes which they had well-nigh forgotten. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Brodie Clark, the quondam head of the UK border force, appeared before the House of Commons home affairs committee. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Havana is a city of youth, somehow living in a microcosm of a quondam culture, prevented from evolving. ❋ Lili Boyle (2012)

Daughtry began, but was ignored by his quondam friend, who was saying to Doctor Masters: ❋ Unknown (2010)

The employers 'associations, that had helped the captains of industry to tear and rend labor, were now torn and rent by their quondam allies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

MacBride was a founding member and quondam International Chairman of Amnesty International. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Gnawing on the bones of their former greatness amid the ruins of their former glory, its quondam world powers were condemned to look on helplessly as America and Russia decided their continent's fate. ❋ Unknown (2010)