please

Speech parts

1. please - Verb

2. please - Adverb

3. please - Interjection

Meaning

To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.

To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will.

To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally.

To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.

To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.

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None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful...it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury...we repay your hatred with kindness. Cyprian

If you knew how quickly people would forget you after your death, you would not seek in your life to please anyone but God. John Chrysostom

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. Abraham Lincoln

I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak what I please. Dutch Proverb

Blessed are those who can please themselves. African Zulu Proverb

You cannot please everybody. Russian Proverb

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