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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 husbandSuttee \ 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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