quidamn.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. Post-scr. So many vnworthy Quidams, which catch at the garlond which to you alone is dewe.

1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. xi. 143 Who were these quidams that laid hands on Scory?

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 48 Some Individuum vagum, a certaine Quidam in the Clouds.

1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives IV. lxxvii. 196 She singing a miserable ditty, a bead-roll of lamentable rhymes, strung together by this Quidam!—This Henley!

1800 tr. L. S. Mercier New Picture Paris I. xviii. 57 In this number [of assassins] we must comprehend the quidams, who, in the inside of the prison, had constituted themselves judges of the prisoners.

1832 Times 3 Sept. 3/3 If the doctrine of our English quidams be right, the French must be very short of brain.

1911 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 10 June 10/2 Capitalists..were reluctant to invest their money in a country described by some quidam to have been primitive and without social organization.

1986 D. Grambs (title) Dimboxes, epopts, and other quidams.

2004 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 29 June c2 It's pretty risky to invite quidams from the audience, nameless strangers, onto the stage.

1892 Athenæum 9 July 65/1 A retort lay ready to his hand more effective than any indulgence in quidam-ities.

1982 T. Tanner in J. B. Elshtain Family in Polit. Thought 110 Julie's father refuses to recognize Saint-Preux as having ‘a name’. Of course he does have one..but it is one that the father effectively nullifies by his withholding of ratification. He is forced into the ontological category of quidamity.

1987 Yale French Stud. No. 73. 182 ‘Robinson Crusoe, Where are you? Where have you been?’.. The first words the castaway teaches his parrot show that his personal geography, once established, will protect him from quidamity, from the dreadful namelessness of those permanently expelled from the fortress of civilization.