personally

• personly

From Middle English personally, personely, personallich, personaliche, equivalent to personal +‎ -ly.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/, /ˈpɜːs.nə.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝ.sə.nə.li/, /ˈpɝs.nə.li/

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personally (comparative more personally, superlative most personally)

1. In a personal manner.
2. 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.

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

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

3. Concerning oneself.

   I'm really annoyed with her, personally.

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

     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.

4. As a person.

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