Meaning of arrestation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of arresting.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of stopping or slowing something (especially a process).
   countable, uncountable
3. The act of catching someone's attention.
   countable, dated, uncountable
4. The act of arresting someone (taking them into legal custody).
   countable, dated, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] he had continued [the treatment] to the day on which I saw⟳ him […] with relief of pain and improvement of his general feelings, but without any arrestation of his decline⟳ in strength and weight;”

“We realise⟳ that the results of the war are revealed not only in the total of lives lost or wrecked […] but on the ruin of the fabric of Society, […] the arrestation of progress⟳ moral and material […]”

“While arrestation of physiological maturation may occur⟳ on the basis of inhibiting emotional factors, one cannot make⟳ the general statement that the stronger the prohibitions, the greater is the delay⟳ in sexual maturation.”

“[…] in most of Europe […] population stagnated or actually declined during the seventeenth century. This arrestation of population growth […] was particularly noticeable in Spain, central Europe, Poland, and Italy,”

“Different hypnotists use⟳ different methods of inducing this condition, but the main factor in all of them is the fixation and arrestation of the attention and the use⟳ of suggestion.”

“1794, Helen Maria Williams, letter dated September 1794 in Letters Containing a Sketch⟳ of the Politics of France, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1795, Volume 1, p. 4, […] the arrestation of the English residing in France was decreed by the national convention;”

“He was not a German, and could prove⟳ it, so that only a short time afterwards he got out of arrest and changed his name⟳. But at that hour I saw⟳ in his arrestation, the finger of God, for now there was nobody but me to take⟳ the waggons through the country.”

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