arbitrament
IPA: ˈɑrbʌtrʌmʌnt
noun
- The judgement of an arbiter or arbitrator; an arbitration.
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Examples of "arbitrament" in Sentences
- I firmly believe in arbitrament by police magistrates and civil courts.
- The arbitrament of war forces the abandonment of much of the old façade which hides this shift.
- At the end of that fight either we will have a arbitrament or we will get rid of leaders who aren't strong enough. it's a win-win situation.
- Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, king of England, and the king of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God.
- Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, King of England, and the King of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God.
- For anyone who wants to understand the total failure of the human spirit which war represents - and the utter disgust which must follow the "arbitrament" of war - must read the extract from Jean Giono's Le Grand Troupeau, which accompanies Louis Dauphin's bleak, rainswept painting, "Supply Route at Peronne".
- Or, if they should be so far admitted as furnishing a species of proof that no malice was intended in this sort of combat, from which fatal accidents do sometimes arise, it can only be so admitted when both parties are IN PARI CASU, equally acquainted with, and equally willing to refer themselves to, that species of arbitrament.
- Poor William James, who invented this point of view, would be horrified at the use which is made of it; but when once the conception of objective truth is abandoned, it is clear that the question, ‘what shall I believe?’ is one to be settled, as I wrote in 1907, by ‘the appeal to force and the arbitrament of the big battalions,’ not by the methods of either theology or science.
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