umpirage

NOUN
  1. the act of umpiring
    the officiating was excellent
  2. mediation by an umpire
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How To Use umpirage In A Sentence

  • This umpirage, it is to be hoped, will grow into an uniform custom.
  • There he spoke eloquently ‘of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force.’
  • The invention relates to a whistle for use in umpirage of athletic games and in security jobs including guiding and signaling to gathering people.
  • At our distance, we hear too little truth and too much falsehood to form correct judgments concerning them; and they are moreover foreign to our umpirage.
  • Nations without that umpirage are in the condition of a population without government.
  • 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. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
  • 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. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
  • 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 The Framework of Home Rule
  • 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. The Framework of Home Rule
  • These difficulties, however, may be overcome by resort to the umpirage provided for by the treaty. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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