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 Campbell, Charles

The high contracting parties having thus agreed upon terms of mutual animosity, to all appearance there remained only the arbitrament of battle.

From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The arbitrament of the sword reversed the decision of the lawyers at Roncaglia.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

She had decided upon nothing,—leaving in fact the arbitrament of her faith in the hands of the man who had now come to see her.

From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony