A woman who follows the Hindu custom of sati (see sense 2a), typically by immolation on her husband's funeral pyre. Now chiefly historical.
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| 释义 | society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > types of widow > by self-immolation on husband's pyre (4) sati1786 A woman who follows the Hindu custom of sati (see sense 2a), typically by immolation on her husband's funeral pyre. Now chiefly historical. Subcategories:— custom of (3) |
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