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[ adverb ] with respect to its inherent nature
Synonyms Examples "this statement is interesting per se" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)If they opted_for illusion , it could only be illusion per_se - an illusion of depth , and of relief , so general and abstracted as to exclude the representation of individual objects . If , on_the_other_hand , they opted_for representation , it had to be representation per_se - representation as image pure_and_simple , without connotations ( at_least , without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed . |
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