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prethee

prethee is the alternative spelling 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 prethee

What is prethee the alternative spelling of?
Prethee is the alternative spelling of prithee.

Words near prethee in the dictionary

  1. prethalamus
  2. prethcamide
  3. prethe
  4. pretheater
  5. pretheatre
  6. prethee
  7. pretheistic
  8. pretheological
  9. pretheology
  10. pretheoretical
  11. pretheoreticality

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prethee (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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