Crossword clues for suttee
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suttee \Sut*tee"\, n. [Skr. sat[=i] a faithful wife, fem. of sant existing, real, true, good, p. pr. of as to be. Cf. Sooth.]
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]
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The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband. [India]
Note: The practice, though abolished in British India law in 1829, is not wholly prevented.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"self-cremation of a Hindu widow on her husband's funeral pyre," 1786, from Hindi, from Sanskrit sati "virtuous woman, faithful wife," used also of the burning, fem. of sat "good, wise, virtuous, true," literally "existing," present participle of asmi "I am" (cognate with Latin esse; see essence). Properly, the word for the woman who does so. The custom was abolished in British India in 1829.
Wiktionary
n. The custom and/or act of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion to her late spouse.
WordNet
n. the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
Usage examples of "suttee".
Capes granted the widow, but declared he had never seen the pamphlet in favour of Suttee, and disbelieved in it.
If he married a troublesome widow, his pamphlet on Suttee would be out within the year.
I must offer him my hand to mend him, vowing to prove to him that Suttee was properly abolished.
He had wanted the old custom of suttee to be carried out to the letter.
But you must respect their prejudices, such as suttee, for example, if you are consistent.
You fools, you English, you have abolished the suttee of the wife for the husband, you have only introduced the suttee of the husband for the wife.
GOLDEN THRESHOLD BY SAROJINI NAIDU WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR SYMONS DEDICATED TO EDMUND GOSSE WHO FIRST SHOWED ME THE WAY TO THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD London, 1896 Hyderabad, 1905 CONTENTS FOLK SONGS Palanquin-Bearers Wandering Singers Indian Weavers Coromandel Fishers The Snake-Charmer Corn-Grinders Village-Song In Praise of Henna Harvest Hymn Indian Love-Song Cradle-Song Suttee SONGS FOR MUSIC Song of a Dream Humayun to Zobeida Autumn Song Alabaster Ecstasy To my Fairy Fancies POEMS Ode to H.
Next to him sat Swami Nirmal Bastar, leader of a large Hindu sect whose people still practiced suttee, for which they had been banished from the Indian subcontinent over three hundred years before.
Asia sinks beneath the weighty recollections of her past magnificence, as the Suttee sinks, jewel burdened, upon the corpse of dread grandeur, destructive even in its death.
He had become resigned to her perpetual lamentation and living Suttee for his defunct rival.
But no Indian widow who ever performed suttee was more worthy of praise than you, or even that person of Ephesus, whose story I have heard somewhere.
Diana, have you really performed suttee, have you buried yourself alive in this sweet spot deliberately, or has the love of retirement grown upon you, and have you become a kind of lotus-eater?
Sati Anglicized, her name becomes suttee, for Sati was the first woman to follow her husband into death.
GOLDEN THRESHOLD BY SAROJINI NAIDU WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR SYMONS DEDICATED TO EDMUND GOSSE WHO FIRST SHOWED ME THE WAY TO THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD London, 1896 Hyderabad, 1905 CONTENTS FOLK SONGS Palanquin-Bearers Wandering Singers Indian Weavers Coromandel Fishers The Snake-Charmer Corn-Grinders Village-Song In Praise of Henna Harvest Hymn Indian Love-Song Cradle-Song Suttee SONGS FOR MUSIC Song of a Dream Humayun to Zobeida Autumn Song Alabaster Ecstasy To my Fairy Fancies POEMS Ode to H.