This is the name of a man who lost his identity.
It had taken him some time to lose his identity.
In other words, here's someone who has never lost his identity totally.
Low 70 north 15 west 986 losing its identity by that time.
It had a post office from 1875 until 1907 but has since lost its specific identity.
Some of them had already run and spread in such a way as to lose their identity.
They lost personal identity and became masks for something that was the same in all of them.
And he'd been eager to lose his old identity, because the police were looking for him.
To lose one's identity was to die, in a sense.
Each time it became increasingly more difficult to keep from losing his own identity.