for one's particular

English

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Prepositional phrase

for one's particular

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) For one's part; as far as one is concerned.
    • 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section V. A Digression in the Modern Kind.”, in A Tale of a Tub. [], London: [] John Nutt, [], →OCLC, page 120:
      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.

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