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Pleace vs. Please — What's the Difference?

Pleace vs. Please — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Pleace and Please

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Pleace

(in use generally from the Middle English period to the fifteenth century and persisting in Scots until the seventeenth century) please

Please

Cause to feel happy and satisfied
It pleased him to be seen with someone in the news
He arranged a fishing trip to please his son

Pleace

Obsolete spelling of place

Please

Take only one's own wishes into consideration in deciding how to act or proceed
This is the first time in ages that I can just please myself

Please

Used in polite requests or questions
Please address letters to the Editor
What type of fish is this, please?
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Please

To give enjoyment, pleasure, or satisfaction to; make glad or contented.

Please

To be the will or desire of
May it please the court to admit this firearm as evidence.

Please

To give satisfaction or pleasure; be agreeable
Waiters who try hard to please.

Please

To have the will or desire; wish
Do as you please. Sit down, if you please.

Please

If it is your desire or pleasure; if you please. Used in polite requests
Please stand back. Pay attention, please.

Please

Yes. Used in polite affirmative replies to offers
May I help you? Please.

Please

(ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
Her presentation pleased the executives.
I'm pleased to see you've been behaving yourself.
Our new range of organic foods is sure to please.

Please

To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
Just do as you please.
He doesn't think, he just says whatever he pleases.

Please

Used to make a polite request.
Please, pass the bread.
Would you please sign this form?
Could you tell me the time, please?
May I take your order, please?

Please

Used as an affirmative to an offer.
—May I help you? —(Yes,) please.

Please

An expression of annoyance or impatience.
Oh, please, do we have to hear that again?

Please

(Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information.

Please

To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.
I pray to God that it may plesen you.
What next I bring shall please thee, be assured.

Please

To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will.
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he.
A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech.

Please

To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; - used impersonally.
To-morrow, may it please you.

Please

To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.
What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more.
For we that live to please, must please to live.

Please

To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.
Heavenly stranger, please to tasteThese bounties.
That he would please 8give me my liberty.

Please

Give pleasure to or be pleasing to;
These colors please the senses
A pleasing sensation

Please

Be the will of or have the will (to);
He could do many things if he pleased

Please

Give satisfaction;
The waiters around her aim to please

Please

Used in polite request;
Please pay attention

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