arrestation
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arrestation
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From French arrestation, from Latin arrestatio.
noun arrestations
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The act of stopping or slowing something (especially a process).
[…] 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;
Similar: arrest
- The act of catching someone's attention. 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.
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The act of arresting someone (taking them into legal custody).
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;
Similar: arrest
Talk about this word "arrestation." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/arrestation. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. arrestation. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/arrestation "arrestation." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/arrestation.Cite this
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title = {arrestation},
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