arbitrament

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Every possible means consistent with Divine law and human dignity must be employed ... to avoid the final arbitrament of nuclear warfare.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since he was deaf to argument and reason nothing remained but to refer it to the arbitrament of arms, with the result that General Bambos is quite sure not to open the dispute again.”

From Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

From the day of his acknowledged election, party politics settled into the calm of acquiescence, and all loyal and true States and men bowed to the arbitrament of the ballot box.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

If they fight with sword and shell are they not lowering themselves to the level of Nietzsche, Bernhardi and B�low, and submitting to the arbitrament of the sword, which decides nothing except its own sharpness.

From The Great Discovery by Maclean, Norman

That which was passing in his mind must be the arbitrament of her fate.

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Trollope, Anthony