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Suttee

noun
1.
The act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband.





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... in English seem a little behind the times, here and there more than a little brutal. He speaks with sympathy of suttee, and he quotes the Volga-Kalmucks with approval. This tribe, it seems, "treat their wives with the most exquisite patriarchal courtesy; but directly the wife neglects a household duty courtesy ceases (for ...
— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick


Words linked to "Suttee" :   self-destruction, self-annihilation, suicide


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