"pray" meaning in Middle English

See pray in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb form}} pray
  1. Alternative form of preie Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: preie
    Sense id: en-pray-enm-verb-I3P-akEL Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries
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          "english": "Then spoke Sir Gawain, and said, “Brother, Sir Agrivain, I pray you and charge you move not such matters any more before me, for be ye assured I will not be of your counsel.”",
          "ref": "1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Morte Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 449, verso, lines 15–18:",
          "text": "Than ſpake ẜ Gawayne And ſeyde brothir · ẜ Aggravayne I pray you and charge you meve no ſuch · maters no more a fore me fro wyte you well I woll nat be of youre counceyle //",
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