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IN PERSON
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the flesh; without involving anyone else
Example:
he appeared in person
Synonyms:
in person; personally
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Context examples:
The third house, so lit up, also rules siblings and cousins so in the coming weeks, you may spend more time with your sibling, either in person or on the phone.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
In person he was a thick-set, burly man with a shock of grizzled hair, a brown, weather-beaten face, and blue eyes which were keen to the verge of fierceness.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That it should be as vital as possible, it required no more than that the woman should be Maud Brewster, who now charmed me in person as she had long charmed me through her work.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The same lady pays for the education and clothing of an orphan from the workhouse, on condition that she shall aid the mistress in such menial offices connected with her own house and the school as her occupation of teaching will prevent her having time to discharge in person.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They were a remarkably fine family, the sons very well-looking, the daughters decidedly handsome, and all of them well-grown and forward of their age, which produced as striking a difference between the cousins in person, as education had given to their address; and no one would have supposed the girls so nearly of an age as they really were.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
For two months Alleyne had wavered betwixt death and life, with a broken rib and a shattered head; yet youth and strength and a cleanly life were all upon his side, and he awoke from his long delirium to find that the war was over, that the Spaniards and their allies had been crushed at Navaretta, and that the prince had himself heard the tale of his ride for succor and had come in person to his bedside to touch his shoulder with his sword and to insure that so brave and true a man should die, if he could not live, within the order of chivalry.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This vampire which is amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men; he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages; he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the divination by the dead, and all the dead that he can come nigh to are for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not; he can, within limitations, appear at will when, and where, and in any of the forms that are to him; he can, within his range, direct the elements; the storm, the fog, the thunder; he can command all the meaner things: the rat, and the owl, and the bat—the moth, and the fox, and the wolf; he can grow and become small; and he can at times vanish and come unknown.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was the devil of our childhood in person.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But Mr. Elton, in person, had driven away all such cares.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall call for it in person on Monday morning.’
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
