Please vs. Pray — What's the Difference?

Cause to feel happy and satisfied

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

Take only one's own wishes into consideration in deciding how to act or proceed

To use prayer to request (that something may happen)

Used in polite requests or questions

To say (a prayer or group of prayers)

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

To make a devout or earnest request for

To be the will or desire of

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

To give satisfaction or pleasure; be agreeable

(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

To have the will or desire; wish

Used to make a polite or urgent request or question

If it is your desire or pleasure; if you please. Used in polite requests

(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.

Yes. Used in polite affirmative replies to offers

To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.

(ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.

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

To desire; to will; to be pleased by.

To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.

Used to make a polite request.

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

Used as an affirmative to an offer.

Please; used to make a polite request

An expression of annoyance or impatience.

Alternative form of pray tell

(Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information.

See Pry.

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

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

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

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

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

To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.

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

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

Address God; say a prayer

Give pleasure to or be pleasing to;

Call upon in supplication; entreat;

Be the will of or have the will (to);

Give satisfaction;

Used in polite request;