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sa⋅ti

  [suh-tee, suht-ee]
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–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

Sa⋅ti

  [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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sa·ti   (sŭ-tē', sŭt'ē')   
n.  Variant of suttee.
sut·tee also sa·ti   (sŭ-tē', sŭt'ē')   
n.  
  1. The now illegal act or practice of a Hindu widow's cremating herself on her husband's funeral pyre in order to fulfill her true role as wife.
  2. pl. sut·tees also sa·tis A widow who commits such an act.

[Sanskrit satī, virtuous woman, suttee, from feminine present participle of asti, s-, she is, is true; see es- in Indo-European roots.]
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