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pro per

pro per is the abbreviation of in propria persona.

Meaning of in propria persona

Adverb

in propria persona

  1. 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

Origin of pro per

short form of the Latin “in propria persona”

Questions about pro per

What is pro per the abbreviation of?
Pro per is the abbreviation of in propria persona.

Words near pro per in the dictionary

  1. pro max
  2. pro memoria
  3. pro memorias
  4. pro nav
  5. pro parte
  6. pro per
  7. pro rata
  8. pro re nata
  9. pro se
  10. pro shop
  11. pro shops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pro per (page history and authors); in propria persona (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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