| 单词 | to commit sati |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto commit sati a. A practice followed within some Hindu communities, in which a woman kills herself as an act of piety or devotion soon after the death of her husband, typically by immolation on her husband's funeral pyre; an example or instance of this ritual. Frequently in to commit sati.In some cases a widow may be forced or coerced into committing sati. The custom, which has long been controversial, was outlawed in India in 1829; the Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act (1987) made it illegal to support or glorify the ritual as well as to perform or attempt to perform it. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [noun] > types of sati1806 satiism1828 hara-kiri1856 junshi1871 seppuku1871 ritual suicide1903 murder-suicide1904 autocide1923 mass suicide1937 doctor-assisted suicide1975 self-deliverance1975 self-deliveration1975 assisted suicide1976 suicide by cop1986 bullycide2001 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > types of widow > by self-immolation on husband's pyre > custom of widow-burning1767 sati1806 satiism1828 1806 La Belle Assemblée Aug. To Correspondents A curious authentic account of a Suttee which took place last year at Barod, shall appear in our next. 1813 in Papers E. India Affairs: Hindoo Widows & Voluntary Immolations (1821) 33 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 749) XVIII. 295 To require that any express leave..be required, previously to the performance of the act of ‘suttee’. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 778/2 Suttee in native states..he [sc. Lord Dalhousie] kept down with an iron hand. 1949 Bull. Deccan Coll. Post-Grad. & Res. Inst. 1948 9 11 The local tradition ascribed the sculpture to a woman who committed Sati in remote antiquity, and was in consequence worshipped as a devi. 1997 H. Kureishi Love in Blue Time 69 I'm oppressed, you see, beaten up, pig-ignorant with an arranged marriage and certain suttee ahead. 2014 Free Press Jrnl. (India) (Nexis) 15 Dec. A 65-year-old woman..allegedly committed ‘Sati’ by jumping on the funeral pyre of her husband..at Parmaniya village..on Saturday noon. < as lemmas |
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