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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
    The spelling suttee is a phonetic spelling using 19th-century English orthography The satī transliteration uses the more modern ISO IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration), the academic standard for writing the Sanskrit language with the Latin alphabet system
  • Sati | Practice, History, Abolition | Britannica
    In modern Hindi the phrase satī prathā (“practice of sati”) is used Colonial British texts employ the now outdated spelling suttee Some passages in the ancient Vedic texts, if read a certain way, might refer to the practice, but those mentions are unclear
  • Widow-Burning - Encyclopedia. com
    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
  • British Abolish Suttee in India | History - EBSCO
    Suttee, the Hindu custom of widows burning themselves to death on their dead husbands’ funeral pyres, was frequently practiced in India from ancient times until the nineteenth century, when a British governor-general outlawed it
  • 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
  • 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
  • What Is the Custom of Sati? - Cultural India
    Sati or Suttee is a banned funeral custom, where a widow either voluntarily or by compulsion self-immolates (Anumarana or Anugamana) on her husband’s pyre, or commits suicide in some other manner, following her husband’s death
  • The Representation of Sati:
    Of all Hindu customs, none more fascinated--or appalled--the Europeans than "suttee," the practice of widow-burning The term sati is Sanskrit for "virtuous woman," but is used principally to refer to the faithful wife who "becomes sati" through self-immolation on the funeral pyre of her husband
  • Introduction to the Custom of Sati - ThoughtCo
    Sati or suttee is the ancient Indian and Nepalese practice of burning a widow on her husband's funeral pyre or burying her alive in his grave This practice is associated with Hindu traditions
  • Suttee - imperialism. en-academic. com
    Suttee, or sati, is a Hindu custom in which widows immolated themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands Suttee was supposed to be voluntary, but it was in fact often coerced





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