satī

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sa⋅ti

[suh-tee, suht-ee]

–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.

Also, sa⋅tī, suttee.

Origin:
1780–90; < Skt satī good woman, woman devoted to her husband

[suh-tee, suht-ee]

–noun Hindu Mythology.

the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.

Also, Sa⋅tī.

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