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)

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

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

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