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
However discordant the late American Minister Gouvernoeur Morris, and the late French Committee of Public Safety, were, it suited the purposes of both that I should be continued in arrestation.
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 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
What evidences of "a fatal and stunting arrestation of development"!
From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot
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)
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