please
please Lexical Profile
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• adverb
Used as a polite marker of courtesy when making a request, giving an instruction, or accepting an offer.
"Could you please pass the salt across the table?"
• interjection
Used to express polite insistence, urgent pleading, or exasperated disbelief in response to a statement or situation.
"Oh, please, do not tell me you actually believed that ridiculous excuse!"
• verb
To cause someone to feel happy, satisfied, or gratified.
"It always pleases the teacher to see her students collaborating so well."
To wish, choose, or see fit to do something.
"Once the project is finished, you are free to spend the afternoon however you please."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 14th century from Anglo-French pleser and Old French plaisir ('to please'), from Latin placere ('to be acceptable or pleasing'). Its use as a polite marker in requests developed as a shortened form of the conditional phrase 'if it please you'.