umpirage
IPA: ˈʌmpaɪɝɪdʒ
noun
- (law, archaic) The office (or term of office) of an umpire
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Examples of "umpirage" in Sentences
- These difficulties, however, may be overcome by resort to the umpirage provided for by the treaty.
- Yet it were best to leave an American reference open for audit and umpirage to the stanch E.P. Clark of the New
- Yet it were best to leave an American reference open for audit and umpirage to the stanch E.P. Clark of the New England Bank.
- In putting this great difference unto umpirage, that we may not be thought to fix on a partial arbitrator we shall refer it to one of our greatest and most learned adversaries in this cause.
- We are umpires, "and the reader will no doubt remember that the theory of" umpirage "was used in exactly the same way in the Colonies, notably in Upper Canada, [45] to thwart the tendency towards a reconciliation of creeds, races, and classes.
- Step into Plunkett House, that hospitable headquarters of the Organization Society, and if you have been nurtured in legends about inextinguishable class and creed antipathies, which are supposed to render Home Rule impossible and the eternal "umpirage" of
- We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness, of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force.
- We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness; of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force.
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