arbitrament
English
Etymology
From Middle English arbitrament, from Old French arbitrement.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɑːˈbɪtɹəmənt/
Noun
arbitrament (plural arbitraments)
- The judgement of an arbiter or arbitrator; an arbitration.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 27, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
- This oration […] he concluded with a flourish of his cudgel, and enforced with such determined refusals to leave them, that they found it impossible to bring the cause to mortal arbitrement at that time, and strolled about the park in profound silence […] .
- 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
- Several powerful prices had contended for her alliance, and her father who was a king of wondrous shrewdness, to avoid making enemies by showing partiality had referred them to the arbitrement of arms.
- 1889, Brotherhood of Liberty, Justice and Jurisprudence:
- They assert that the right may be given by the Fourteenth Amendment but the remedy can be refused by the public, and as we understand Hall and DeCuir, the courts of civil jurisdiction have only the office of affirming their discretionary arbitrament, as the Supreme Court did in that celebrated cause.
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Alternative forms
- arbitrement
Translations
arbitration — see arbitration