arrestation

1. The act of arresting.Examples: "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."countabledateduncountable

2. The act of arresting.Examples: "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."Synonyms: arrestcountabledateduncountable