baronetizev.
/ˈbarənɪtʌɪz/ transitive. To confer a baronetcy on, make a baronet. Also transferred.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > ennoble [verb (transitive)] > invest with rank or title > dub (a knight) > make into a baronet
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1860 G. Meredith Evan Harrington xiv, in Once a Week 14 Apr. 334/2 Third son! Don't commit yourself there. We dare not baronetise him.
1892 G. Hake Mem. 80 Years lxv. 276 We have no ‘Sir Barry’ nowadays; premiers do not build houses, so that they do not baronetize architecture.
1967 K. Giles Death & Mr. Prettyman i. 32 The late Sir Ebenezer had been a jerry builder..whom Lloyd George had baronetized for war services.
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