for one's particular
English
Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic, obsolete) For one's part; as far as one is concerned.
- 1704 Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub v:
- For my own particular, I cannot deny, that whatever I have said upon this occasion, had been more proper in a preface, and more agreeable to the mode which usually directs it there.
- 1704 Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub v:
References
- “for one's particular” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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