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 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)

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

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

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