SUTTEE meaning: Self-immolation of Hindu widows

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suttee: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Definitions from Wiktionary (suttee)

▸ noun: (historical, Hinduism) 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.

Opposite:

widow remarriage, widow liberation, widow empowerment

Adjectives:

indian, last, hindoo, voluntary, cold, illegal, perpetual, practical, spiritual, single, eighteenth

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