Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
plait .
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Examples
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Obama is a man that comes from where the ordinary people come from and understands the plite of the ordinary person.
Clinton: Vetting process for administration jobs 'a nightmare' 2009
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I am very proud of Senator Obama, I feel he has handled this distraction very well and continues to bring the focus back to the plite of the american people.
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It iz time to raise awarenesses to teh plite of rodints everywhere.. teh persecution, teh nomming, teh hoomanitee!
Nawt comin’ out - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Ambercat you no tellz owr murrikan frenz dat in Ingerland ‘tyrdanemoshunal’ iz plite wayz uv sayin too menny martoonies, an not meenin sad.
Grate. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I jsut sent a msg to teh organizer wif teh tale of yur plite!
Do Not Want - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Lukly Ai wurks wif teh chillin, so dey be to plite to sey somting or dey be bein plite.
oh death! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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"Are you purfickly shure you aint lying just to be plite?" was the next question.
At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown
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May it plese my Lord, -- i have gest time to Rite and let you kno 'wot a sad plite we are inn, On account off your lordship's inwitayshun to queen
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Various
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"Well, Mr. Footley," says I, "for my own private opinion, when you've got a nice brass plite in the middle, an 'nice brass' andles each end, there's nothin 'like hoak."
Liza of Lambeth 1919
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The verb 'plight' (or more properly _plite_) is a variant of _plait_: see _Il Pens. _ 57, "her sweetest saddest _plight_."
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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