

Jan 8, 2014 This week's theme

Miscellaneous words



This week's words

repletion

ponderous

quondam

inimical

ignominy

Miscellaneous words A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



quondam PRONUNCIATION: (KWON-duhm)

MEANING: adjective: Former; onetime.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quondam (formerly). Earliest documented use: 1535.

USAGE: "One of the assumptions Madison and others labored under was that Britain would be too preoccupied with beating Napoleon to pay much attention to its quondam colonies."

Joyce Appleby; The Washington Post; A Stumbling, Fiery End to War of 1812; May 5, 2013.

See more usage examples of quondam in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. -John Leonard, critic (1939-2008)





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