1) Archaic English phrase 2) Archaic request 3) Please, old-style 4) Please, quaintly 5) Please, to a Puritan 6) Please, to shakespeare 7) Please, to the Bard 8) Request starter of old
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Prithee is an archaic English interjection formed from a corruption of the phrase pray thee, which was initially an exclamation of contempt used to indicate a subject`s triviality. The earliest recorded appearance of the word prithee according to the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1577 and the last appearance was in 1875 while it is most common....
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expression of wish or request
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• (interj.) A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I.
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Prith'ee interj. A corruption of
pray thee ; as, I
prithee ; generally used without
I .
Shak. « What was that scream for, I
prithee ?»
L'Estrange. «
Prithee , tell me, Dimple-chin.»
E. C. Stedman. Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/164
(I) pray thee.
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