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Перевод: suttee

[существительное]
обычай самосожжения вдовы вместе с трупом мужа; вдова, сжигающая себя вместе с трупом мужа

Тезаурус:

1. Much of Daly's book, Gyn/Ecology (1979), is an account of the barbarities inflicted on women such as suttee, clitorectomy, foot-binding and other forms of mutilation.
2. The last thing a cocky little man like Hatton would want was a kind of spiritual suttee.
3. Er, Mr brought slavery into it, but no one had more slaves than India and the Moguls and what about suttee where widows were burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands and still leap and still the system was des er was stopped by the English Just a moment the door was opened by Mr talking about slavery we don't shut it on
4. Most moving of all though was the shot of the Suttee (tomb) Stones at Rajasthan.
5. Great spiritual power is envisaged in such chastity, and hence the most virtuous woman is one who commits sati or suttee , that is, voluntary suicide committed by being cremated alive with the corpse of one's husband.