prithee

• prythee

Contraction of I pray thee.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪði/

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• Rhymes: -ɪði

prithee

1. (archaic) please; used to make a question or request more polite or more forceful.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.

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