Personalia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    All the personal belongings, writings and information of an individual. plural, plural-only

    "Evidently doing this job would be as much a matter of probing his memory for links and identifications, as of reading his personalia and getting up the history of Sudan."

  2. 2
    Announcements or requests issued in an association's periodical by or about individual members of that association. plural, plural-only

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"Evidently doing this job would be as much a matter of probing his memory for links and identifications, as of reading his personalia and getting up the history of Sudan."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.

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