baronage
Americannoun
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the entire British peerage, including all dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons.
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Also the dignity or rank of a baron.
noun
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barons collectively
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the rank or dignity of a baron
Etymology
Origin of baronage
1250–1300; Middle English barunage < Anglo-French ( see baron, -age); replacing Middle English barnage < Old French
Example Sentences
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Elevated to the baronage, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, former governor of strife-torn Cyprus.
From Time Magazine Archive
A busy and effective behind-the-scenes operator in the political arena, he helped form the wartime government of Lloyd George, was awarded a baronage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Postmaster General Major George Clement Tryon was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with the additional sop of a baronage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now the big city machines are shot: Chicago's Jack Arvey could not even carry Cook County; the Tammany Tiger is a sick old alley cat; Boss Hague's Jersey City baronage is gone.
From Time Magazine Archive
His rule was expensive, and he made himself hated by every class of his subjects, baronage, clergy and people alike, by his ingenious and oppressive taxation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
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