the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness
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the title of a baron
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Baronetcy \Bar"on*et*cy\, n. The rank or patent of a baronet. ※ ||
Salisbury treated the process with patrician disdain: 'No more tobacconists I entreat you,' he wrote to his colleague the Duke of Devonshire after a dodgy baronetcy raised eyebrows. The trafficking was hidden from public view.
He lives in the family village of Daresbury, four miles south of Warrington, and will inherit the baronetcy when his father dies.