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Suttee

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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

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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