baronetagen.
/ˈbarənɪtɪdʒ/ 1. The rank of baronet.
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baronady1586
baronry?a1600
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baronetcy1812
baronethood1869
1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) i. 128 He obtained also a grant of a baronettage of Nova-Scotia.
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 711 Baronetages have been conferred on them.
2.
a. The order of baronets, the body of baronets collectively.
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baronetage1876
1876 Echo 6 Dec. 1/6 This family is of great antiquity, and in point of precedence the second in the baronetage.
1882 Standard 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.
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1720 A. Collins (title page) The Baronettage of England, being an Historical and Genealogical Account of Baronets.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. i. 1 Sir Walter Elliot..for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage . View more context for this quotation
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