baronetcy

noun

bar·on·et·cy ˈber-ə-nət-sē

ˈba-rə-;

ˌber-ə-ˈnet-sē,

ˌba-rə-

: the rank of a baronet

Examples of baronetcy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Osborne was the heir to a baronetcy; Cameron’s family descended from a mistress of William IV. —

Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 Queen Victoria knighted him, granting him the further honor of a baronetcy in 1886, finally creating him a peer as 1st Baron Leighton of Stretton, in 1896. —

Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023 In the nineteen-sixties, a legal battle took place, in secret, over the claim of a Scottish transgender man, Ewan Forbes, to a baronetcy title whose succession was determined by male primogeniture. —

The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021 His fiancée might be a princess, but Jack actually has his own ties to the Brooksbank baronetcy. —

Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2018 George will inherit the baronetcy when his father dies. —

Ed Caesar, Esquire, 15 Sep. 2017

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