arrestation
Example Sentences
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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
And the scene in the house finished with the arrestation of myself.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
Had I been an insignificant character I had not been in arrestation.
From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine
They had no mandamus to do that, but the pretext was the arrestation of a battalion of "Gendarmes" and the discovery of a subterranean vault leading to Versailles.
From The Insurrection in Paris by Davy (An Englishman)
What evidences of "a fatal and stunting arrestation of development"!
From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot
