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

And while when those graves were made we differed widely about the nature of this government, these differences have been settled by the arbitrament of arms.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

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