So many years have passed but the village has retained its old identity.

You give up your old identity and assume a new one as a member of the tribe.

I had hardly expected that he would return in his old identity.

And he'd been eager to lose his old identity, because the police were looking for him.

He had to stay dead in his old identity, he was still a wanted man.

His wife had him declared dead under his old identity, and in 1947 the couple married again.

His old identity is gone, and a new one has started to grow within him.

So she had shed her old identity, settled into the community here.

"I found myself falling back into my old identity."

A lot of the longtime executives are pretty invested in the old corporate identity.