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baronetage|ˈbærənɪtɪdʒ|
[f. baronet n. + -age: cf. baronage.]
1. The rank of baronet.
1760T. Hutchinson Hist. Col. Mass. i. (1765) 128 He obtained also a grant of a baronettage of Nova-Scotia. 1818Blackw. Mag. III. 711 Baronetages have been conferred on them.
2. The order of baronets, the body of baronets collectively.
1876Echo 6 Dec. 1/6 This family is of great antiquity, and in point of precedence the second in the baronetage. 1882Standard 30 Dec. 2/4 In the Baronetage the following deaths have taken place.
b. A list of the order of baronets; a book giving such a list with historical and other particulars.
1720A. Collins (title-p.) The Baronettage of England, being an Historical and Genealogical Account of Baronets. c1815Jane Austen Persuasion (1833) I. i. 215 Sir Walter Elliot..for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage. (Titles of Annuals) Burke's Peerage and Baronetage; Debrett's Baronetage with Knightage. |