Definition of "personal" []

• Of or relating to a particular person; private: "Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted” ( Elizabeth Janeway). (adjective)
• Done, made, or performed in person: a personal appearance. (adjective)
• Done to or for or directed toward a particular person: a personal favor. (adjective)
• Concerning a particular person and his or her private business, interests, or activities; intimate: I have something personal to tell you. (adjective)
• Aimed pointedly at the most intimate aspects of a person, especially in a critical or hostile manner: an uncalled-for, highly personal remark. (adjective)

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• "It is because these things -- those which "avail for highest purposes" -- make man personal and mark him off, broadly speaking, from the lower, sub-human life out of which he has emerged, that we believe in the permanence of human personality, of the spiritual element in man, in the survival of the soul _as individual and personal_, and not merely as "part of the eternal Being of God.""