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A woman chosen or appointed to judge or decide a disputed issue

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Usage examples (35)
  • Here she reigns supreme, the arbitress of the everlasting weal or woe of untutored infancy.
  • Eloquent and witty, she was the delight of her neighbors, and their chronicle and arbitress.
  • It was accordingly put into the hand of his fair arbitress, who read it immediately with an audible voice.
  • I supposed it concerned me, more than any other, to be the arbitress of the quarrels of unruly spirits. —
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