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 almost universal disposition of the better class of the people was to accept the arbitrament which the sword had accorded them.

From Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by Lester, J. C.

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.

This is the meaning of the Nicene Council in the great arbitrament between the Spiritual and the Civil Powers, or, in Catholic language, between the Priesthood and the Empire.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

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