[f. as prec. + -HOOD.] The degree or rank of baronet; baronetcy.
1869. Pall Mall Gaz., 18 Sept., 2/1. What is necessary to become a knight under a Liberal Administration? How may a baronethood be achieved?
1919. Tatler, 7 May, 143/2. But for the more insignificant, surely some smaller solatium than knightood—and even more so baronethood, for that descends to heirs male and goes on for ever and ever—would meet the case quite nicely.
