IN PERSON Definition & Meaning

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in person

Also, in the flesh. In one's physical presence, as in He applied for the job in person, or I couldn't believe it, but there she was, in the flesh. The first expression dates from the mid-1500s. The variant, from the 1300s, was long used to allude to the bodily resurrection of Jesus, but later acquired its looser meaning. Charles Dickens has it in Our Mutual Friend (1865): “The minutes passing on, and no Mrs. W. in the flesh appearing.”

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Some companies require cancellations to be done by phone, or even in person.

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Some houses of worship say between a third or half of their congregants are no longer showing up in person as the raids continue.

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She took holidays, saw friends and family, attended her university in person for a semester, and stayed away from tennis until the itch returned.

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She doesn’t do showy and she’s the same in person, appealingly modest and soft-spoken.

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Several former sub-postmasters travelled to the Oval cricket ground in London to see Sir Wyn deliver volume one of his report in person.

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