personally
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English personally, personely, personallich, personaliche, equivalent to personal + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
personally (comparative more personally, superlative most personally)
- In a personal manner.
- In person.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
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- Concerning oneself.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
- Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Roxton and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.
- I'm really annoyed with her, personally.
- As a person.
- I like you personally, but as a colleague you are useless.
Translations
in a personal manner
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in person
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concerning oneself
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as a person
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