blazing, car of carbonization, concremation, disembowelment, flaming, immolation, mass suicide, parching, sacramental offering, self-destruction, smelting, vesication
Definitionn. the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
Last update: September 25, 2015
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Hinduism, which was once the religion of Java, but has been extinct there for four centuries, is still in vogue in the islands of Bali and Lombok, where the cruel custom of widow-burning (suttee) is still practised, and the Hindu system of the four castes, with a fifth or Pariah caste (called Chandala), adhered to. [Please select]
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(From the suttee pyre the flame of gum camphire ascends.) [Please select]
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His influence assisted in the abolition of the suttee, and in bringing about other reforms. [Please select]
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Sir Francis watched the procession with a sad countenance, and, turning to the guide, said, "A suttee." [Please select]
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She had been suttee always as the master very well knew. [Please select]
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The mem might starve, she told herself fiercely, but she would be suttee. [Please select]
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"The mem will he suttee too," she said stupidly, after listening a while. [Please select]
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