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prethe

prethe is the obsolete form of prithee.

Meaning of prithee

Interjection

  1. (archaic) please; used to make a question or request more polite or more forceful.
    • What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.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]...

Questions about prethe

What is prethe the obsolete form of?
Prethe is the obsolete form of prithee.

Words near prethe in the dictionary

  1. pretextures
  2. pretexturing
  3. prethalamic
  4. prethalamus
  5. prethcamide
  6. prethe
  7. pretheater
  8. pretheatre
  9. prethee
  10. pretheistic
  11. pretheological

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prethe (page history and authors); prithee (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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