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Example sentences for: quondam

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What these dauntless defenders of the status quondam fail to detect is that a linguistically fascinating, and utterly inevitable, semantic change is occurring—has already occurred, really—beneath their very proboscises (or proboscides for the classically rigorous).
These perhaps quondam ad hoc expressions, now part and parcel of our respective daily languages, adhere to the same general rhythmical and phonological rules as the nonsense words in the magical texts.