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

Other issues were not susceptible of such definite arbitrament, but in general the Commission, striving to hold the scales of justice even, followed the rule of fifty-fifty.

From The Coming of Coal by Bruere, Robert W.

Whether it was worthy of your courtesy to offer an insult to one who cannot 84 defend himself, I shall leave to your own arbitrament, when you bethink yourself in other hours of this situation.

From Graham of Claverhouse by Maclaren, Ian

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

There were many circumstances which tended to make both monarchs prefer a more peaceful arbitrament of their quarrel, and to disgust them with the war.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling