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

They spent four fruitless years over the question, and it remained undecided until settled by the arbitrament of the sword.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)

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

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

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