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arrestation

noun

Etymology

From French arrestation, from Latin arrestatio.

  1. derived from arrestatio
  2. borrowed from arrestation

Definitions

  1. The act of arresting.

    • […] 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA