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
They therefore, for this time, confined themselves to single degrees of accusation and arrestation against the most valuable part of the National Convention.
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 Conway, Moncure Daniel
What evidences of "a fatal and stunting arrestation of development"!
From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Elliot, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
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
Had I been an insignificant character I had not been in arrestation.
From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas
