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BARONET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight
Example:
since he was a baronet he had to be addressed as Sir Henry Jones, Bart.
Synonyms:
baronet; Bart
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("baronet" is a kind of...):
aristocrat; blue blood; patrician (a member of the aristocracy)
Derivation:
baronetize (confer baronetcy upon)
Context examples:
An admiral speaks his own consequence, and, at the same time, can never make a baronet look small.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She had not waited her arrival to look out for a suitable match for her: she had fixed on Tom Bertram; the eldest son of a baronet was not too good for a girl of twenty thousand pounds, with all the elegance and accomplishments which Mrs. Grant foresaw in her; and being a warm-hearted, unreserved woman, Mary had not been three hours in the house before she told her what she had planned.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
There was not one lord in the neighbourhood; no—not even a baronet.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
If he should ever be made a baronet!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The young ladies who approached her at first with some respect, in consideration of her coming from a baronet's family, were soon offended by what they termed airs; for, as she neither played on the pianoforte nor wore fine pelisses, they could, on farther observation, admit no right of superiority.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He was now esteemed quite worthy to address the daughter of a foolish, spendthrift baronet, who had not had principle or sense enough to maintain himself in the situation in which Providence had placed him, and who could give his daughter at present but a small part of the share of ten thousand pounds which must be hers hereafter.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Anne had no Uppercross Hall before her, no landed estate, no headship of a family; and if they could but keep Captain Wentworth from being made a baronet, she would not change situations with Anne.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She had, while a very young girl, as soon as she had known him to be, in the event of her having no brother, the future baronet, meant to marry him, and her father had always meant that she should.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:—Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset, and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:—Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
