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
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
What evidences of "a fatal and stunting arrestation of development"!
From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Elliot, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
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
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
