baronage
Americannoun
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the entire British peerage, including all dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons.
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Also the dignity or rank of a baron.
noun
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barons collectively
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the rank or dignity of a baron
Etymology
Origin of baronage
1250–1300; Middle English barunage < Anglo-French ( baron, -age ); replacing Middle English barnage < Old French
Example Sentences
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His government was stern; he over-rode the privileges of the baronage without regard to precedent; he persisted in keeping large districts under the arbitrary and vexatious jurisdiction of the forest-courts.
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No alliance was actually formed between the king and the mesne nobility against the immediate baronage.
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The committee rejected the demand, and Grosseteste foiled an attempt on the king’s part to separate the clergy from the baronage.
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His rank and territorial influence made him the natural leader of the western baronage.
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Why should we not deserve the good wishes for the triumph of our cause and the strong right arms not only of the baronage but of all the freemen of England?
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