Suttee
noun
1.
sati.
noun
1.
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
2.
a Hindu widow who so immolates herself.
noun
1.
the former Hindu custom whereby a widow burnt herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre
2.
a Hindu widow who immolated herself in this way
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