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Definition
by itself (innately)
- The only important participants absent were the original defendants; in their stead, as it were, stood Judge Tate, old Mr. Fleming, and Harrison Smith, whose careers were imperiled-not because of the appellant's allegations per se, but because of the apparent credit the Bar Association bestowed upon them.4 — The Corner (83% in)
There are no more uses of "per se" in In Cold Blood.
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