English Explanatory Dictionary

please God

English dictionary entry

Meanings

intj
  1. If it pleases God; God willing.

Word forms

please God

Etymology

absolute construction; comparable to the phrase (if) it (should/might) please God (present subjunctive mood); apt to be reanalyzed by many listeners today as if vocative/direct address (e.g., please God grant, in second person and imperative mood), but absolute and subjunctive in origin.

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