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 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

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 Paine, Thomas

Soon after I was put into arrestation, and imprisoned in the Luxembourg, the Americans who were then in Paris went in a body to the bar of the Convention to reclaim me.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas