in propria persona
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of in propria persona
1645–55; < Latin: in one's own person
Example Sentences
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As he put it, rather more sweetly, in propria persona: "You marry to continue the conversation."
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2012
A popular favourite as he was, yet even Martin, in propria persona, acknowledges that his manner was not approved of by either party.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Not fifty yards away, in a sunny opening, lay a mass of brownish fur which could belong to nobody but a bear in propria persona.
From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Emma G. Moore
Not the Belknap Jasper Lamotte has known; not the Belknap of Constance Wardour's recollection; but Jerry Belknap, in propria persona, shorn of all disguise.
From The Diamond Coterie by Lawrence L. Lynch
Hastening from the hated scene of my terrors, I escaped to the parlor, whither I instantly summoned the proprietor of "the Bell" in propria persona.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
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