单词 | cold sati |
释义 | > as lemmascold sati cold sati n. now historical (chiefly with reference to Hindu communities in India) any of various practices involving the killing of a woman by means other than burning (cf. sati n. 2a); esp. the killing of a widow (or a woman considered to have brought dishonour on her family) by poison; later also applied to the experience of a widow suffering social ostracism after the death of her husband.ⓘ ΚΠ 1883 Indian Spectator 30 Sept. 619/2 They get up a ceremony in her honour, what they call a cold Suttee. 1885 Allen's Indian Mail 13 Oct. 784 Sentencing to a life of wretchedness those who would at one time have been immolated on the funeral pyre, or poisoned under the name of cold suttee. 1900 J. Fuller Wrongs of Indian Womanhood iv. 53 A leading reformer refers to the present sufferings of Indian widows as ‘cold suttee’. 1993 M. Strobel in M. Adas Islamic & European Expansion 359 A life of poverty, advancing age, and the ‘cold sati’ to which Hindu widows were subjected as polluted, marginal, and ostracized members of the community. < as lemmas |
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