Difference between Former and Quondam

FORMER vs QUONDAM: NOUN

The templet used for the cutting of gear-teeth; the guide used for giving desired motion to the cutter when forming or cutting irregularly shaped pieces in a profiling-machine.
Specifically, a pattern in or upon which anything is shaped, as a piece of wood used for shaping cartridges and gun-wads; any mechanism contributing to give shape to an article in process of manufacture.
A predecessor.
One of a number of appliances and machines used in bending and shaping sheet-metal into tubes, cylinders, boxes, and other forms.
The first of two or the first mentioned of two
In electricity, a frame upon which the coils of certain types of armatures and transformers are wound.
One who forms; a maker; a creator.
A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.
A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.
A cutting die.
Someone who forms something.
An object used to form something.
Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).
One who forms, fashions, creates, or makes; a creator.

Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.
Near the beginning; preceeding.
Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.
Previous
(used especially of persons) of the immediate past
Belonging to the distant past
Referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several)
Belonging to some prior time
First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.

Bygone.
Preceding or going before in a series; antecedent in order of thought, of action, etc.: specifically applied to the antecedent one of two things, or of two parts or divisions of anything.
Past; especially, long past; ancient.
I prefer the former version to the latter one"
Being or happening before in time; preceding another or something else in order of time; prior.
Being before in place; fore; first; foremost.

Defunct, Deposed, Veteran, Ousted, Retired, Sometime, Early, Other, Past, Late, Once, Previous, Quondam, Erstwhile, Onetime

Scrivener, Nostalgist, Parvenu, Philosophe, Effeminacy, Ocracy, Liberalist, Manque, Begetter, Past, Sometime, Once, Former, Onetime, Erstwhile

Defunct, Deposed, Veteran, Ousted, Retired, Sometime, Early, Other, Past, Late, Once, Previous, Quondam, Erstwhile, Onetime

Scrivener, Nostalgist, Parvenu, Philosophe, Effeminacy, Ocracy, Liberalist, Manque, Begetter, Past, Sometime, Once, Former, Onetime, Erstwhile

Law is a former student leader in the democratic movement in Hong Kong and a former lawmaker, now exiled in London.
Yoweri Museveni and his wife Janet, Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo and former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano.
President Joe Biden saluted former President Jimmy Carter during his inaugural address, saying he spoke to the former president on Tuesday night.
Information on former fellows obtained from former fellows.
The amendment prohibited former Confederate states from repaying war debts and compensating former slave owners for the emancipation of their enslaved people.
Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, Monday, Nov.
Former TDCJ Employee to request that the former employee be added.
Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama this.
For example, a number of such leaders can be identified, including former Senator Sam Ervin and former Representative Robert Kastenmeier.
Former name or former address, if changed since last report.

One or two nations, especially Britain and its quondam dominions, kept faith with liberal principles sufficiently to establish semi-independent broadcasting stations.
This region held their annual social meeting at The Quondarie Room in the Jeppe Quondam Conference Centre, Bedfordview.
He felt absolutely, initial of its own to participate in this red Trident Furthermore, I is accompanied quondam trembling a little.
He was the quondam CIA hireling from Miami who attained notoriety as one of the Watergate burglars.
Hie incineratur corpus quondam Gaulfridi Bulleyn Civis Merceri et Majoris London qui ab hac luce migravit An.
Also spelled condam, quondam, which suggests it may be from It.
Virde Andree, quondam Virde Joannis de Civitate Sasseri.
Immediately an epidemic of crime breaks out among quondam Christians, which nothing can quell.
Cumitis do Leuuiiax, hlii et herctis quondam Johannis Comitis de Lenenax.
Ducalis Palatii Saltzdahlensis quondam confecti, cum Monumento ejusdem Cccnobii.