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What does per se mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word per se? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. necessarily
  2. In and of itself; by itself; without consideration of extraneous factors.
  3. (chiefly in negative polarity environments) As such; as one would expect from the name.
  4. (law) As a matter of law.
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When payment is involved, the consensus was that it should be for irrigation, canals, pumps, and other infrastructure, not for water per se.
Time of flowering is affected by genes controlling the response to vernalization, to differences in day length and earliness per se.
As is known, keeping appropriate information secret per se involves a certain amount of outlays.
It seems to me that part of the dilemma you are discussing herein is not a function of the art in question per se.
His art is refined but never precious, and the voice per se is simply ravishing.
For many, religion per se has become a curious historical anachronism, a dated relic of the old days.

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