personally

comparative more personally · superlative most personally · alternative personly

1. In a personal manner.
2. In person.

   'There's a boy here who wants to speak to Miss Clara personally,' he announced.

   1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84

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   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.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

3. Concerning oneself.

   I'm really annoyed with her, personally.

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   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.

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

4. As a person.

   I like you personally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.