in propria persona en · ADV
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin in propria persona.
Meanings
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By the person themselves; often used when a defendant is representing themselves in court without an attorney.
She became a subscriber—amazed at being anything in propria persona, amazed at her own doings in every way; to be a renter, a chuser of books!
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 191: