Prithee
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Prithee
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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 listed in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1577, while it is most commonly found in works from the seventeenth century. The contraction is a form of indirect request that has disappeared from the language. Prithee is the most widely known example of second pers
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2008-04-29T16:54:31Z
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2024-09-02T16:59:51Z
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