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fatidic  

Throughout his very considerable body of work, there is an obsession with time, with dates, with temporal coincidences, with the fatidic power of numbers over our birth and death. -- James Kirkup, "Obituary: Ernst Junger", Independent, February 18, 1998

erstwhile  

I was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state. A P J Abdul Kalam, "Wings of Fire: an autobiography"

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