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- noun Plural form of
baronetcy .
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Examples
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All modern baronetcies date from the reign of James I, who handed them out to all and sundry for the price of hiring and equipping 80 soldiers for his army.
Baronets, Bad and Otherwise deliasherman 2010
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All modern baronetcies date from the reign of Charles I
Baronets, Bad and Otherwise deliasherman 2010
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Most baronetcies do have a place attached to them, but the baronets do not commonly take the place's name, though some do.
Baronets, Bad and Otherwise deliasherman 2010
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The Prime Minister responded to the criticism as he announced the rolling out of non-means tested hereditary baronetcies for all working families.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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The Prime Minister responded to the criticism as he announced the rolling out of non-means tested hereditary baronetcies for all working families.
Pigs and men 2007
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I must confess, I paid little attention to that, as the notion of paying in one form or another for titles, knighthoods, baronetcies and other suchlike baubles, is hardly new.
Why not money for peerages? Helen 2006
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His return to the United Kingdom was followed by the usual gold medals, baronetcies, honorary degrees, and a quiet harrumph retirement.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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His return to the United Kingdom was followed by the usual gold medals, baronetcies, honorary degrees, and a quiet harrumph retirement.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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It remained for young Essex to begin the degradation of the order in his hapless Irish campaign, and for James to complete that degradation by his novel method of raising money by the sale of baronetcies; a new order of hereditary knighthood which was the laughing-stock of the day, and which (however venerable it may have since become) reflects anything but honor upon its first possessors.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Were you in your ignorance to surmise that such a one was of a good family because the head of his family was a baronet of an old date, he would open his eyes with a delightful look of affected surprise and modestly remind you that baronetcies only dated from James I.
Barchester Towers 2004
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