noun
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the order of baronets; baronets collectively
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the rank of a baronet; baronetcy
Etymology
Origin of baronetage
Example Sentences
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Why does not some one publish a list of the young male nobility and baronetage, their names, weights, and probable fortunes?
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Rank is rank; but your father has absorbed notions which disgrace his baronetage.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
If the senators represent, in a certain sense, the peerage and baronetage, the next order represents—also in a certain sense.—the knightage.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
When she returned in triumph to England, she coaxed her foolish husband to appropriate some of his rupee riches to the purchase of a baronetage.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane
About the year 1795 the baronetage was revived, and William Feltram enjoyed the title for fifteen years, as Sir William Mardykes.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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