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noun 
  1. The custom and/or act of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband"s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion to her late spouse.
Etymology: Sanskrit (satÄ) (lit. devoted woman), from the fem. (sat) (true, good). (Eng. usg. 1786 through British English)

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