Crossword-Solution: SUTTEE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Suttee | n. | A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character. |
| Suttee | n. | The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SUTTEE | anagram | TUTEES |
We have 13 clues for the answer “SUTTEE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hindu widow cremation | 1 answer |
| Obsolete custom of Hindu widows. | 1 answer |
| Old Hindu funeral tradition | 1 answer |
| Self-immolation, old Hindu custom. | 1 answer |
| WIDOW suicide | 1 answer |
| WIFE self-immolation | 1 answer |
| custom whereby a widow burnt herself on her husband's funeral pyre | 1 answer |
| sutteeism | 1 answer |
| widow cremation Hindu | 1 answer |
| suicide | 5 answers |
| Immolation | 15 answers |
| widow | 20 answers |
| Sacrifice | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SUTTEE (5)
Asia sinks beneath the weighty recollections of her past magnificence, as the Suttee sinks, jewel burdened, upon the corpse of dread grandeur, destructive even in its death.
His wives, disregarding the orders of the English against Suttee, would have broken out of the palace had not the gates been barred.
Polygamy and monogamy, suttee, thuggism, and cannibalism, are all acceptable to the romancer, whose business is with the heart of a man in all times and places.
You will ask him for it; he will demand payment: you will be a couple of yards' length or so of cramoisy: and there ends the episode, nobody killed, only a poor man melancholy-wounded, and I must offer him my hand to mend him, vowing to prove to him that Suttee was properly abolished.
Thus the Hindu practice of burning a wife upon the funeral pyre of her husband is called in English "suttee", this word being in fact but the phonetic spelling of the Sanskrit "sati", "a virtuous woman," and passing into its English meaning because formerly the practice of self-immolation by a wife was regarded as the highest virtue.
Quotes with SUTTEE (1)
People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness. It is the look of someone who walks from the ophthalmologist's office into the bright daylight with dilated eyes, or of someone who wears glasses and is suddenly made to take them off. These people who have lost someone l…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1942–1992).