suttee
suttee is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband. [India] Note: The practice, though abolished in British India law in 1829, is not wholly prevented.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adorer
- altruism
- apotheosis
- avatar
- benevolence
- block
- calf
- canonization
- canonize
- chivalrous
- chivalry
- deification
- deify
- demonism
- demonolatry
- devoted
- devotion
- disinterested
- disinterestedness
- done
- elevated
- elevation
- exaltation
- exalted
- fetich
- fetichism
- fetishism
- generosity
- generous
- golden
- graven
- great
- great-hearted
- handsome
- head
- hecatomb
- heliolatry
- hero
- heroic
- heroism
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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