Definitions for suttee

suttee sut·tee

Spelling: [suh-tee, suht-ee]
IPA: /sʌˈti, ˈsʌt i/

Suttee is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in suttee (eesttu).

Definitions for suttee

noun

  1. sati.
  2. a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
  3. a Hindu widow who so immolates herself.

Origin of suttee

First recorded in 1780-90, sati is from the Sanskrit word satī good woman, woman devoted to her husband

Examples for suttee

She happened to have been reading about suttee in a feminist paper only a day or two before.

His influence assisted in the abolition of the suttee, and in bringing about other reforms.

He issued his proclamation abolishing the suttee in his district.

She became a suttee, and was burnt the day after the body of the banker.'

Did we wait until India herself asked for the abolition of suttee?

Some institutions referred to, like suttee, have disappeared.

McClean-sahib has told me that suttee has been practised here as a regular thing.

Rite of suttee abolished in Hindostan by the British authorities.

This horrible death, known as suttee, was made unlawful in 1830.

He speaks with sympathy of suttee, and he quotes the Volga-Kalmucks with approval.

Word Value for suttee
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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