Baronry

Quick meaning: Baronry is a noun meaning The state or quality of being a baron.

Meaning

The state or quality of being a baron.

Example Sentences

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.

The order was revoked; but the feeling became even more intense when it was known that the king was getting ready to start for St. Denis, where his principal allies, the King of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. "

Word Forms

• baronries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lordhood, lordness, baroqueness, barbariousness, lordship, barbarousness.

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