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Personal   /pˈərsɪnɪl/   Listen
Personal

adjective
1.
Concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality.  "For your personal use" , "Personal papers" , "I have something personal to tell you" , "A personal God" , "He has his personal bank account and she has hers"  Antonym: impersonal.
2.
Particular to a given individual.
3.
Of or arising from personality.
4.
Intimately concerning a person's body or physical being.
5.
Indicating grammatical person.
noun
1.
A short newspaper article about a particular person or group.



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"Personal" Quotes from Famous Books



... General Assembly shall not make any appropriation of public funds, of personal property, or of any real estate, to any church, or sectarian society, association, or institution of any kind whatever, which is entirely or partly, directly or indirectly, controlled by any church or sectarian ...
— Civil Government of Virginia • William F. Fox
... knew they spoke truth; there were a number of the colonists who had shown themselves friendly to him and who would be willing to stand by him. Moreover, he felt within himself the power to use them, to make them follow his bidding as Wingfield could never succeed in doing. It was less for personal gratification he was tempted to consent than for the knowledge that his leadership would benefit the colony as would that of none of his fellow adventurers. He was not a vain man, but one ...
— The Princess Pocahontas • Virginia Watson
... of mental diagnosis. The editorial introduction by Dr. Bruce consists in a brief outline of the subconscious mind. The author's preface, aside from anticipating the main features of the book, makes the announcement that the latter is based very largely on the personal experience of the last two years. The author gives one the impression that this period represents to him one in which he has to his own satisfaction mastered the relationship between psychoanalysis on the one hand and our current conception of moral philosophy, ethics and religion ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... and in this respect the Mexicans were considerably in advance of the people of Europe. There were shops for the sale of blank books, or rolls, for the hieroglyphic picture writing. Under some of the porticoes were hides, raw and dressed; and various articles for domestic or personal use, made ...
— By Right of Conquest - Or, With Cortez in Mexico • G. A. Henty
... personal part of the story, was more atrocious ... it intimated that I had, during my sojourn at Laurel, been an undesirable that would have made Villon pale with envy ... an habitue of the Bottoms ... that I had been sleeping with negro women and rolling ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp


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