suttee
IPA: sˈʌtˈi
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.
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Examples of "suttee" in Sentences
- The practice of suttee was banned in 1829.
- Suttee practice seemed to be a custom just like that.
- Suttee is an English word and should be treated as such.
- Suttee term doesn't feel associated with ancient Germanic tribes.
- It speaks of the very early Indo European practice of suttee in Europe.
- The best known case of widow slaying is of course the custom of "suttee" in India.
- So was suttee, the tradition in India of widows throwing themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres.
- You might consider India and the outlawed 'suttee', where a widow would climb on the funeral pyre of her dead husband.
- I challenge you to study why "suttee" was outlawedby theState of Indiaafter 1900, and why some Hindus still practicesuttee secretly in India today.
- Another gem from this Steyn book: In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands.
- The British government forbade "suttee," as widow burning was called, and although we hear that it is still practiced occasionally in remote parts of the empire, such an act would be punished as murder if the police were to learn of it.
- They have been spoonfed lies and distortions about the British Empire, so that they bleat about how ashamed they are of it, forgetting that for all its faults it gave parliamentary democracy to the world (or tried to), and abolished excesses such as suttee and thuggee.
- When one thinks of the atrocious crimes, upheld by religious sanctions, such as suttee and infanticide, which we have put down in the face of determined opposition and even threats of rebellion from the most honoured classes of the community, it is strange to be told that "before we went the people were religious, chaste, sober, compassionate towards the helpless, and patient under suffering," and that we have corrupted them.