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 Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot
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 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
"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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