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suttee::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide |
Examples of suttee
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Thanks in part to Gen. Napier, suttee was virtually ended in India.
From the post-gazette.com
A shrine commemorating the widow will be built at the suttee site.
From the time.com
The mention of a sari might suggest the Hindu ritual, suttee.
From the guardian.co.uk
Should there be some mention of suttee in this article?
From the en.wikipedia.org
Suttee, child marriage, wife beating, honor killing, etc.
From the economist.com
The ancient Hindu rite of suttee, requiring a woman to immolate herself on the funeral pyre of her husband, was abolished in British India in 1829.
From the time.com
This has led some archaeologists to suspect a form of suttee, where the female was the spouse of the male, and was killed to accompany him upon death.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The British laid down the rule of law through much of India, and banned suttee, the Hindu practise of burning widows alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Early European observers told tales of devotees being crushed under the wheels of these chariots, whether by accident or even as a form of meritorious suicide akin to suttee.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Putting and end to suttee, policing the end of the Atlantic slave trade and setting one precedent after another for self-government are amongst some of the signs of its strictly relative beneficence.
From the economist.com
Cliteur lists infanticide, torture, slavery, oppression of women, homophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, gangs, female genital cutting, discrimination by immigrants, suttee, and the death penalty.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- The act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
- Sati (also spelled suttee) is an obsolete Hindu funeral custom where a widow immolated herself on her husband's pyre, or committed suicide in another fashion shortly after her husband's death.
- The act of a woman placing herself on her husband's pyre, or the women who commits such an act. Made illegal by Britain in 1829.
- The burning of a wife on her husband's funeral pyre.
- A quaint tradition of self-sacrifice at the death of a spouse (read "husband") formerly found in India. Though suttee is illegal today, widows often volunteer at the prodding of noncombatant relatives eager to make a good impression on their neighbors.
- Self-immolation of Hindu widows
- India Ceremonial widow burning.
