persons

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But she could not do it before so many persons, even though the persons were her own nearest relatives.

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  1. noun A living human. Often used in combination: chairperson; spokesperson; salesperson.
  2. noun An individual of specified character: a person of importance.
  3. noun The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self.
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  • Colonel Moore had, no doubt, filled the country round, with advertisements, in which our persons were accurately described, and every peculiarity of each of us carefully noted. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • The lives of several other persons are also in danger. —  039 - The Seven Agate Devils
  • M. Desmarets and several other persons were also in attendance. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon, V7, 1804
  • Yet, though the persons were all considerable, their loss will make little impression on the state of any affairs. —  Letters of Horace Walpole, v2
  • A few other persons were there, these obviously being tourists. —  032 - Dust of Death
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