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suttee    
n. 妻子的殉夫

妻子的殉夫

suttee
n 1: the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the
funeral pyre of her dead husband

Suttee \Sut*tee"\, n. [Skr. sat[imac] a faithful wife, fem. of
sant existing, real, true, good, p. pr. of as to be. Cf.
{Sooth}.]
1. A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on
the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this
act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence
of wifely character. [India]
[1913 Webster]

2. The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her
husband. [India]
[1913 Webster]

Note: The practice, though abolished in British India law in
1829, is not wholly prevented.
[1913 Webster]

70 Moby Thesaurus words for "suttee":
blazing, blistering, branding, burning, burnt offering,
calcination, car of Jagannath, carbonization, cauterization,
cautery, cineration, collection, combustion, concremation,
cracking, cremation, cupellation, deflagration,
destructive distillation, disembowelment, distillation, distilling,
drink offering, ex voto offering, felo-de-se, flaming, hara-kiri,
heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, immolation,
incense, incineration, infanticide, libation, mactation,
mass suicide, oblation, offering, offertory, oxidation,
oxidization, parching, peace offering, piacular offering,
pyrolysis, refining, ritual suicide, sacramental offering,
sacrifice, scapegoat, scorching, scorification, searing,
self-destruction, self-immolation, self-murder, self-sacrifice,
seppuku, singeing, smelting, suicide, sutteeism, thank offering,
the stake, thermogenesis, vesication, votive offering,
whole offering


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  • Sati (practice) - Wikipedia
    Sati or suttee[a] was a chiefly historical Hindu practice in which a widow burns alive on her deceased husband 's funeral pyre, [1][2] either voluntarily, [3] by coercion, [4][5] or by a perception of the lack of satisfactory options for continuing to live [6]
  • Sati | Practice, History, Abolition | Britannica
    Sati is a South Asian custom in which a wife immolates herself either on the funeral pyre of her dead husband or in some other fashion soon after his death Sati was considered to embody the ideal of womanly devotion held by certain Brahmin and royal castes, but it has been illegal since colonial times
  • SUTTEE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of SUTTEE is the act or custom of a Hindu widow burning herself to death or being burned to death on the funeral pyre of her husband; also : a woman burned to death in this way
  • Cultural Imperialism or Rescue? The British and Suttee
    Suttee or "widow-burning," as the British called it, became a subject of much concern to the new administrators As time went by, it acquired a peculiar resonance for them, and for those in the home country as well
  • Widow-Burning - Encyclopedia. com
    Widow-Burning The burning of wives on the funeral pyres of their husbands, widow-burning, commonly known as sati ("suttee" in English), has been practiced in India since at least the fourth century b c e , when it was first recorded in Greek accounts Source for information on Widow-Burning: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying dictionary
  • The Practice of Sati (Widow Burning) (2026) - queleparece. com
    Suttee by James Atkinson, 1831, in the India Office Collection of the British Library (c) British Library Board 2009 In this age of ascending feminism and focus on equality and human rights, it is difficult to assimilate the Hindu practice of sati, the burning to death of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre, into our modern world Indeed, the practice is outlawed and illegal in today's India
  • British Abolish Suttee in India | History - EBSCO
    The practice known as suttee, or sati, was a long-standing custom in some Hindu communities in India where widows would self-immolate on their husbands' funeral pyres This practice, which has roots in ancient Hindu texts, was often viewed as a means for women to demonstrate loyalty and achieve spiritual merit, although it could also stem from social pressures, including the stigma associated
  • Suttee | Wives burned alive with their husbands - YouTube
    Suttee is a historical Hindu practice in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre Although it is debated whether it received scriptural mention in
  • Chapter 2 – The Practice of Suttee, or Widow-Burning, in India . . .
    Among the peculiar Hindu customs sanctioned by antiquity and practised until a century ago, when it was abolished by an act of the British government, was the inhuman practice of “suttee,” or widow-burning The word “suttee,” derived from the Sanskrit sati, literally means “a true wife,” and the term was properly applied to a woman whose faithful devotion to her husband, during his
  • Widow-burning Banned, India: 1829 - Women Priests
    The burning of wives on the funeral pyres of their husbands, widow-burning, commonly known as sati ("suttee" in English), was practiced in India since at least the fourth century B C E , when it was first recorded in Greek accounts Centuries after the Portuguese banned the practice in Goa, long after the French and Dutch made it illegal, high-caste Hindu women in British India continued to





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