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/pˈərsənəli/ /pˈərsənli/ /pˈərsnəli/ Listen

adverb

Personally adv.

In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. "He, being cited, personally came not."

With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; particularly. "She bore a mortal hatred to the house of Lancaster, and personally to the king."

With respect to one's individuality; as regards one's self; as, personally I have no feeling in the matter.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Personally" Quotes from Famous Books

... a leading journal, he is frequently recognized as an authority, and has a social as well as a professional position to maintain. Further, the professional woman does not strongly attract the critic personally. There is no glamour about stage people to him; but should he desire to make an actress's acquaintance, he would do so in the perfectly correct manner of a gentleman. But this is not known to the young stranger ...

— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris

... principle. As a matter of fact it appears to prove the first, but to have no bearing on the second. It also proves that when they did care, they could be obstinate, for the Bill was dropped: which illustrates the tact with which the King could yield on a point unimportant to him personally. ...

— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes

... all ready?" asked Dick, as he personally put the last finishing touches to the preparations. "Then down you all go except the five men who are to help me with the firing of the quick matches. You go last, Phil, and when you are down ignite the portfire which is to be the ...

— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood

... thoroughly disconcerted; this was the first time she had ever seen Flavia betray any personal emotion which was indubitably genuine. She replied with what consolation she could. "Need they take it personally at all? It was a mere observation upon a ...

— The Troll Garden and Selected Stories • Willa Cather

... not only in the financial sense, but also in that of character. It was said that he knew as many life histories as a doctor or a priest, and generally the more dramatic ones. The experience had clearly made him cynical, but tolerant also, and human, with a tendency, as far as he was personally concerned, to being morally strait-laced. He had seen so much of the picturesque side of life that he could appreciate the prosaic, which, in Chip's explanation, was why he could stand by Mrs. Bland. Other people's ...

— The Letter of the Contract • Basil King

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