arrestation

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Bandy X. Lee: The authoritarian mindset is a familiar arrestation in or regression to an earlier stage of development.

From Salon • May 24, 2019

He was removed from it, put into arrestation, and carried before the tribunal upon a malignant accusation, but acquitted.

From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason by Conway, Moncure Daniel

When the telephone rang its always mysterious call, she went to it with a tense arrestation of her nerves expectant of his voice, fearing—hoping.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen

"General, "Permit me to remind you that I am yet a prisoner in this place, and that it is now one year since my arrestation.

From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest

The guard came about a month after in the night, and took away the landlord Georgeit; and the scene in the house finished with the arrestation of myself.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas