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

Fourteen years later the first blood of dreadful civil war was spilled in Alexandria and the city found itself a pawn to arbitrament by the sword.

From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Moore, Gay Montague

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

But it fell out otherwise, for Skegs swore by the body of St. Rumbold he would have no arbitrament, and that his price was three pound and sixteen shillings, as he had already said.

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.

Facts, when they happen to be real facts, are the best umpires in the world, and to their arbitrament I leave my character for charity.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans