They say he is a very manper se, And stands alone.
1877, Walter Henry Hill,Elements of Philosophy: Comprising Logic and Ontology Or General Metaphysics, page220:
A proposition isper se known as regards itself , but notper se known as regards us, when it has no medium of proof a priori, nor is its truth directly and immediately evident to us on first apprehending the terms.
1909, Emlin McClain,A Digest of Decisions of the Supreme Court of Iowa: From the Organization of the Territory Until the End of January, 1908 ..., page3672:
What words actionable. to subject the offender to contempt, and deprive him of public confidence, and to accuse one who is a notary public of procuring a false affidavit to be made before him is libelous and actionableper se.
1941,George Ryley Scott,Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page vi:
Always have the greatest excesses and the most reprehensible practices been committed when backed up by or given the sanction of religion. But all this represents no derogation of the original phallic cultper se. It merely proves that the gods have always been what we have made them.
2007, Tima Smith,Per Se: An Anthology of Fiction, page176:
It's not that I've got anything against kidsper se, but I believe in discipline.
2012 March 22, Pamela Burnard,Musical Creativities in Practice, Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page202:
It's not a race against the competitionper se: that's not how it feels to me when I'm working on a project.
2012, Tes Hilaire,Deliver Me From Temptation: A Novel of the Paladin Warriors:
Annoyed, frustrated, edgy, but not angryper se.
2013 February 12, Kjell-Ake Nordquist,Gods and Arms: On Religion and Armed Conflict, Wipf and Stock Publishers,→ISBN, page70:
As we shall see, since the 1960s, the ELN, although not a religious movementper se, represents an interesting amalgam of beliefs that helped serve in recruitment, commitment, and identification of a revolutionary belief and ritual.
2015, Thomas Goltz,Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the ...:
Through this lingual haze we quickly established that Suleyman was a member of “Batono” Abashidze's personal militia, but not a policemanper se
2016 September 19, Karen Karbo,Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me: A Novel, Hawthorne Books,→ISBN:
What she meant was, It's not a babyper se. It's a He-bean (she was already certain the bean was a boy).
2017 May 22, Stephen Pimpare,Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen, Oxford University Press,→ISBN:
He sells a story, flirts with a waitress, looks handsome, has writer's block, and feels sorry for himself, but it's not a story about the Depressionper se: it could be set in any time period, almost anywhere.
2021 October 27, Jeanne Sahadi, “How stablecoin is different than other cryptocurrencies … and how it’s not”, inCNN[1]:
There is no legal federal framework yet for how to regulate stablecoinsper se.
1988, J. van Rijen,Aspects of Aristotle’s Logic of Modalities, page137:
Everything not applyingper se in one of these two senses is called an accident.
a.2005, Jacques Maritain,An EPZ Introduction to Philosophy, A&C Black,→ISBN, page153:
Peter isper se alive, endowed with intellect, and the faculty of laughter, the artist is per se one who fashions objects. But Peter isper accidens a sufferer from influenza
2015, Gaven Kerr,Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia:
Thus, unless there exists some being that existsper se, the origination ofesse in a chain of composites itself remains unexplained and quite mysterious. And the existence of a being that existsper se is affirmed through a denial of an infinite regress of essence-esse composites causing other such composites.
2022 October 15, Gaven Kerr,Collected Articles on the Existence of God, BoD – Books on Demand,→ISBN, page218:
Aquinas rejects this position, because then God would not beper se necessary, but would be necessitated by his own divine nature to create. Hence to beper se necessary, God must be free to create.
1986,AdministrativePer Se: A Summary of State Forms and Procedures:
In an effort to assist states that may have recently adopted or expect to adopt administrativeper se, NHTSA has collected sample copies of forms and a brief description of the administrative procedures from selected states with in-place programs.
1980, Mortimer Adler,How to Prove There Is a God: Mortimer J. Adler's Writings and Thoughts About God, Open Court,→ISBN, page197:
Hence, God would have to be the immediateper se cause of some natural motions, but not of all. But no known natural motion is without a natural motion as its immediateper se cause.
1988, J. van Rijen,Aspects of Aristotle’s Logic of Modalities, page137:
Before stating at 74b5ff. that the connection between the subject and predicate of the premisses of scientific inferences must not be accidental butper se, he introduces the technical terms 'about all' ( 'kata pantos') and 'per se' ('kath' hauto ') in order to clarify the meaning of this proviso.
2014, Barrie Fleet,Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 2, page97:
Theper se cause of the house is the building skill and the craftsman who exercises it, while theper accidens cause is the fair-skinned or the artistic man. Alexander says: 'Aristotle says that just as anything that exists is one thingper se and anotherper accidens (by “being what it isper se” he means the substance, and by "what isper accidens" he means the attributes of the substance), so a cause is one thingper se and anotherper accidens.
2015, Gaven Kerr,Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia:
They hold to the impossibility of an actualper se infinity, because in aper se series the effects have a dependence on their causes, in which case if the series were infinite, the ultimate effect would be dependent on an infinite chain of causes; and since an infinity cannot be traversed, the being of such an effect would never be explained.
1981, Hugh Laurence Ross,Deterrence of the Drinking Driver: An International Survey[2], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Transportation, page80:
Until recently Denmark hesitated to adopt a formalper se law, preferring to give more discretion to its judges, but the general practice was to take blood tests and to convict those accused under the classical law if the blood alcohol concentration was greater than 100 mg./100 ml.
2006, Sheldon Kimmel,How and why thePer Se Rule Against Price-fixing Went Wrong, page 1:
CBS (441 U.S. 1 [1979]) explains, theper se rule against price-fixing isn't to be taken literally.
"Per se", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “per se”, inDiccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
