The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arbitress \Ar"bi*tress\, n. [From Arbiter.]
A female arbiter; an arbitratrix.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. A female arbiter.
Usage examples of "arbitress".
Now, she felt no longer able to sail on, "imperial arbitress," smiling at woes which she could inflict, but never share.
By those wounds of living heroes, by those graves of fallen martyrs, by the hopes of your children, and the claims of your children's children yet unborn, in the name of outraged honor, in the interest of violated sovereignty, for the life of an imperilled nation, for the sake of men everywhere and of our common humanity, for the glory of God and the advancement of his kingdom on earth, your country calls upon you to stand by her through good report and through evil report, in triumph and in defeat, until she emerges from the great war of Western civilization, Queen of the broad continent, Arbitress in the councils of earth's emancipated peoples.
And thus he continued on, while my colour came and went several times, with indignation, to hear our noble country, the mistress of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honour, and truth, the pride and envy of the world, so contemptuously treated.
He had to break the tidings of his sister's marriage to the arbitress of his destinies.
And so these two arbitresses of the world not seldom hide their most precious commodities in the obscurity of the crafts that are reputed most base, that thence being brought to light they may shine with a brighter splendour.