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
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
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)
"General, "Permit me to remind you that I am yet a prisoner in this place, and that it is now one year since my arrestation.
From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott
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