PER SE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of per se in English per seadverb   formal uk /ˌpɜː ˈseɪ/ us /ˌpɝː ˈseɪ/ Add to word list Add to word list by or of itself: Research shows that it is not divorce per se that harms children, but the continuing conflict between parents. Linguistics: reflexive forms

• auto
• herself
• himself
• itself
• myself
• not be/seem herself phrase
• not be/seem himself phrase
• oneself
• ourselves
• reflexive
• self
• themself
• themselves
• thyself
• yourself

(Definition of per se from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

per se | American Dictionary

per seadverb [ not gradable ] us /pɜr ˈseɪ/ Add to word list Add to word list by or of itself: It is not a pretty town per se, but it is where my family comes from, so I like it. (Definition of per se from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of per se

per se There was not an explicit governance pact or peace settlement per se, which resulted in recurring crises of governance throughout the 1990s. From the Cambridge English Corpus Of course, a user is not interested in formulas per se, but in the values computed by them. From the Cambridge English Corpus This suggests that snail activity per se is without influence in those associations. From the Cambridge English Corpus This discussion is about perception and not about the arts per se. From the Cambridge English Corpus In addition to the interface design per se, we had to address the problem of mechanical manipulation. From the Cambridge English Corpus It should be emphasized that identification of an active site is not per se an identification of function, but an important step towards one. From the Cambridge English Corpus The focus is not on the features per se, but on their geometric organisation. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, these changes do not per se provide evidence of a rescue effect or indeed of a disappearance from the system. From the Cambridge English Corpus From that moment on, sound per se ceases to carry clear meaning, becoming language. From the Cambridge English Corpus Most writers were not interested in (pre)history per se, but rather in rationalising seventeenth-century concerns with governance, commerce, property and law. From the Cambridge English Corpus This suggests that little can be expected of privatisation per se in terms of its impact on an enterprise. From the Cambridge English Corpus The point is that, reality per se is unknown. From the Cambridge English Corpus The importance of plant functional type over species per se supports the species redundancy theory. From the Cambridge English Corpus The ideas we reject are not nonsense or neurotically conceived pseudo-ideas per se which philosophy as a form of therapy should cure. From the Cambridge English Corpus This does not mean, however, that devaluation per se was avoidable. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of per se These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of per se?

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