Pray vs. Prithee

Prayverb

To petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.

Prayverb

To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.

Prayverb

(religion) To communicate with God for any reason.

Prayverb

(obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

Prayadverb

Please; used to make a polite request.

Praynoun

See Pry.

Prayverb

To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.

Prayverb

To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

Prayverb

To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

Prayverb

To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.

Prayverb

address God; say a prayer

Prayverb

call upon in supplication; entreat;

Pritheeinterjection

(archaic) Short for "I pray thee", i.e. Please.

Pritheeinterjection

A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I.

Pritheeinterjection

please (used to convey a polite request)

Prithee

Prithee is an archaic English interjection formed from a corruption of the phrase pray thee ([I] ask you [to]), 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 commonly found in works from the seventeenth century.