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[ adjective ] belonging to some prior time
Examples "erstwhile friend" "our former glory" "the once capital of the state" "her quondam lover" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Chauncey_Depew , one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination , was attending a convention at Saratoga , where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel_Theodore_Roosevelt for Governor of New_York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met . Related terms |
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