Suttee

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion. Hinduism, countable, historical, uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband wordnet

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Etymology

From Sanskrit सती (satī́, “good and virtuous or faithful wife”), from सत् (sát, “true, good, right etc.”). In English usage since 1786. Doublet of sin.

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