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baronry en · NOUN

Etymology

From baron + -ry.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being a baron
   • The order was revoked; but the feeling became even more intense when it was known that the king was getting ready to start for St. Denis, where his principal allies, the King of Bohemia, the Dukes of Hainault and of Lorraine, the Counts of Flanders and of Blois, "and a very great array of baronry and chivalry," were already assembled. " 1868, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times:
   • It had done well enough for a thousand years, it would do well enough still; it had stood firm against fierce sieges in the dark ages of the Roman baronry, it could afford to stand unchanged in its monumental strength against the advancing sea of nineteenth-century civilisation. 1887, F. Marion Crawford, Saracinesca:

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