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(Note: See erstwhiles as well.)
adverb:  (archaic) Formerly; in the past.
adjective:  (literary, law or India) Former, previous.
adjective:  (proscribed) Respected, honourable.quondam, former, past, sometime, onetime, once, hapless, longtime, redoubtable, fellow, more...

formerly, to a poet

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