personally

adv

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

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

   “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.”

   “'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.”

   “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.”