Pray vs. Prithee — Which is Correct Spelling?

To utter or address a prayer or prayers to a deity or an object of worship, often as an entreaty

To use prayer to request (that something may happen)

To say (a prayer or group of prayers)

To make a devout or earnest request for

To utter or say a prayer or prayers to; address by prayer

(Archaic) To ask (someone) imploringly for something; beseech. Used chiefly in the phrase I pray you to introduce a polite or urgent request or question

Used to make a polite or urgent request or question

(religion) To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.

To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.

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

To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.

(obsolete) To implore, to entreat, to request.

Please; used to make a polite request

Alternative form of pray tell

See Pry.

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.

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

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

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

Address God; say a prayer

Call upon in supplication; entreat;