Definition of "umpirage" [um•pi•rage]

• The office (or term of office) of an umpire (noun)

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• "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 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."
• "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."