Arresting
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late Middle English: from Old French arester, based on Latin ad- ‘at, to’ + restare ‘remain, stop’.
etymonline
arresting (adj.)
1792, "stopping," present-participle adjective from arrest (v.). Figurative sense of "striking, that captures the imagination" is by 1883.
