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Definition of Rearresting
1. rearrest [v] - See also: rearrest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rearresting
Literary usage of Rearresting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Panders and Their White Slaves by Clifford Griffith Roe (1910)
"The hope of rearresting the Mosel woman sank hopelessly out of sight when it was
discovered that the statutes provided a penalty of one thousand dollars for ..."
2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1899)
"There is the doubt whether in the end, with all the expense- necessary in
transporting, providing quarters, guarding, feeding, rearresting- those who escape ..."
3. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"Longstreet has seriously offended against good order and military discipline in
rearresting an officer ..."
4. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"Longstreet has seriously offended against good order and military discipline in
rearresting an officer (Gen. Law) who had been released by the War ..."
5. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1889)
"His word will not be believed against the officer's, and the officer can gain a
record for efficiency by needlessly rearresting persons who have been ..."
6. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"... they spoke of rearresting this person, and he brought this discharge and
exhibited it to the marshal to show that he had been discharged at Raleigh. ..."
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