for one's particular

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: Printed for John Nutt, […], OCLC 752990886, 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.

References

• “for one's particular” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.