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comparative more personal, superlative most personal
Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals). examples
Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals quotations examples
Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, pages 219–257
You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, page 192
Dealing with subjects about which one wishes (or people usually wish) to maintain privacy or discretion; not for public view; sensitive, intimate. examples
(euphemistic) Intended for sexual use. examples
Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; bodily. quotations examples
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
Done in person; without an intermediary. quotations examples
Although you miss the nonverbal cues that you pick up in a personal meeting, you can call far more clients in a day than you can meet with in person.
2011, Bob Nelson, Peter Economy, Consulting For Dummies
Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner examples
(grammar) Denoting a person or people. examples
Denoting ownership. examples
plural personals
(chiefly in the plural) An advertisement by which an individual attempts to meet others with similar interests. examples
One's own property or asset quotations examples
In addition to this, a coarse shirt quite new, a pair of my father's shoes quite old, and, what rejoiced me more than all the rest, a rouleau of twenty rials in a linen rag. Behold the sum total of my personals.
1748, Tobias Smollett (translator), Alain-René Lesage (original), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
I've had my cell ransacked, savagely searched, and as a result, had my legal papers stolen and destroyed, allong with what little personal clothing and other personals I had.
1982 April 10, Roosevelt Williamson, “Prison Racism and Legal Slavery in America”, in Gay Community News, page 15