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  sati

  noun

  a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
• Sati
  Sati

  noun

  the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.

sati

¹ American  

[suh-tee, suht-ee] / sʌˈti, ˈsʌt i /

Or satī,

noun

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

2. a Hindu widow who so immolates herself.

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Sati ² American  

[suh-tee, suht-ee] / sʌˈti, ˈsʌt i /

Or Satī

noun

Hindu Mythology.

1. the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.

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Etymology

Origin of sati

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

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Example Sentences

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After its glorification was made illegal, the group dropped sati from its name.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024

Scholars of the history of self-immolation typically date the phenomenon to antiquity, to early Christian martyrdoms, and particularly to the Hindu practice of sati.

From Salon ● May 4, 2024

A wealthier widow, particularly from the Kshatriya or warrior caste, might throw herself on her husband’s funeral pyre in an act of ritual suicide known as sati.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

They say the folklore around Padmavati has been problematic as they have glorified sati.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2018

The practice of sati was finally prohibited in 1829, without exciting the least discontent.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

“Our town is on the verge of destruction because of this project,” Sati said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

"If that is true, it will be hard to save the rest of the city," says Atul Sati.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2023

Atul Sati, the convener of the Joshimath Bachao Sangharsh Samiti that has been protesting government inaction to stop land subsidence, said local residents had been flagging the issue for months.

From Reuters ● Jan. 7, 2023

There are only four classes of drugs that treat fungal infections, “and very few new ones in the pipeline,” said Dr. Hatim Sati, another W.H.O. official who helped to write the report.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

His Majesty sent the good overseer of the peasants of the King's domains, and boats laden with presents from the King for the Sati who had come to conduct me to the roads of Horus.

From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Epiphanius Wilson

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