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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 "sati," the burning of the widows, is abolished, but Brahmans are clever managers, and the widows often long for the sati.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

For the past 17 years, Atul Sati, the Save Joshimath Committee member, has been convinced that a hydropower station located near his town could one day ruin it.

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

The royal children were brought in, and his Majesty said to the Queen, “Behold thou Sanehat has come as an Amu, whom the Sati have produced.”

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

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