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
What evidences of "a fatal and stunting arrestation of development"!
From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot
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 Thomas Paine
My expulsion being thus effected, the two committees of Public Safety and of General Surety, of which Robespierre was the dictator, put me in arrestation under the former decree for imprisoning persons born in England.
From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine
The other survivor joined Robespierre, and signed with him the warrant of my arrestation.
From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Joel Moody