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in particular

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1. in particular - Adverb

2. in particular - Phrase

Meaning

specifically or especially distinguished from others

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The soul cannot know peace unless she prays for her enemies. The soul that has learned of God's grace to pray, feels love and compassion for every created thing, and in particular for mankind, for whom the Lord suffered on the Cross, and His soul was heavy for every one of us. Silouan the Athonite

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. George Bernard Shaw

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular. Mikhail Lermontov

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. Ulrich Beck

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war. Tony Blair

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues. Alasdair MacIntyre

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