'Suttee' definitions:
Definition of 'suttee'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
Definition of 'Suttee'
From: GCIDE
- Suttee \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]
Synonyms of 'suttee'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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