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 Moncure Daniel Conway
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
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)
The noise which 219 had disturbed us was occasioned by the gathering together of about a dozen persons; but a policeman was in the midst of the group, and we heard rumours of an arrestation.
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope
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