sati

or sa·tī, sut·tee

[ suh-tee, suht-ee ]

noun

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

Origin of sati

¹

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

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Other definitions for Sati (2 of 2)

Sati

or Sa·tī

[ suh-tee, suht-ee ]

nounHindu Mythology.

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

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How to use sati in a sentence

When sati's husband was slighted by her father, the Deva-rishi, Daksha, she cast herself on the sacrificial fire.
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In the fourth dwelt the terrible serpent sati-temui, which preyed on the dead who dwelt in the Duat.
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This transit had been the bugbear of the journey ever since news reached us of the destruction of the sati scow.
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But when their wives came to commit sati by the stone figures the god Siva intervened and brought them to life again.
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Next day the body of her husband was burned in the presence of several thousand spectators, who had assembled to see the sati.
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