in particular
prep_phraseEtymology Related to French en particulier. Compare Spanish en particular and Italian in particolare.
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Focus Especially, individually or specifically.
- Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Comparing the present picture carefully with other known portraits of George Stephenson, and in particular with a portrait belonging to Mrs. Connie Wilson, of Stargate, Ryton-on-Tyne, a close resemblance can be detected in the general contours of the face, the shape of the nose, the lines and shadows around the mouth and chin, and the eyebrows and bone structure above the eyes.1960 February 23, H. C. P. Smail, “New Portrait of George Stephenson”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
- Antonyms
- in general