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
The Fairfax committee framed resolutions, intimating that a persistence of the government in its measures of coercion would result of necessity only in a resort to the arbitrament of arms.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
War is not arbitrament by reason, but arbitrament by the sword.
From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Stephen Francis Weston
Let it be observed now, that Mr. Shields's friends, after agreeing to the arbitrament of four disinterested gentlemen, declined the contract, saying that Mr. Shields wished his own friends to act for him.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon
Every belief of mankind is in the last analysis amenable to reason, and finds its origin in evidence that can appeal to the arbitrament of common sense.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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