old identity

noun

1. a person known for a long time in the one locality

Example Sentences

Did that mean you were going to work with your old identity?

From Slate

By the time of the Perth and Kinross by-election, Scotland was rediscovering an old identity.

From BBC

And reversing that course and rediscovering some of their old identity may be as important as anything else for the Seahawks on Thursday.

From Seattle Times

Watering the plant, as small an act as it was, connected me to a core part of my old identity and taught me I could still be a caregiver.

From Washington Post

Over the decades, they have evolved in very different directions while preserving unmistakable marks of their old identity.

From Washington Post