| 单词 | sati |
| 释义 | sati noun[U] ukus→suttee （同 suttee）Hinduism
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Burying, cremating and preserving bodies Examplesofsatisati By undermining the possibility of the widows' agency, they could discredit the governmental construction of "voluntary"sation which toleration of the rite was based. From theCambridge English Corpus Early modern accounts reflect both condemnation and praise, as individual reactions tosatiwere conditioned by personal experience. From theCambridge English Corpus This heroic treatment ofsatiwas echoed in many of the accounts of the period. From theCambridge English Corpus Archer advances this claim through a discussion of travel narratives that describesatiand other cultural practices representing the paradoxical blend of tradition and degeneration. From theCambridge English Corpus In so doing, the traces of nationalism's genealogy in the earlier discourses on social reform- and, beyond that,sati-become apparent. From theCambridge English Corpus Yet, as scholars have noted,satidoes not have legitimate scriptural sanction.#! From theCambridge English Corpus This meant that women were debarred fromsatiif, among other things, they were under sixteen, pregnant, intoxicated or, most importantly, unwilling. From theCambridge English Corpus Missionaries were influential in the debate oversatiand the subsequent outlaw of its practice. From theCambridge English Corpus The implications ofsatifor the maternal bond were not always understood sympathetically, of course. From theCambridge English Corpus Both the conditions of her former life, and the specific circumstances under which the decision to commitsatiis reached rob her of the power of rational cognisance. From theCambridge English Corpus Despite the tendency to portray thesatias a passive victim, there was still a potential question mark over the nature of her complicity in the rite. From theCambridge English Corpus In this way the social and financial cost to the state was mitigated, and the sati's abandonment of her child was legitimised in legal if not in moral terms. From theCambridge English Corpus There are alsosatideaths. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The wife cremates her husband and commitssatiby jumping into his funeral pyre. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Eventually, 11 people, including state politicians, were charged with glorification ofsati. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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