[f. BARONET sb. + -AGE: cf. baronage.]
1. The rank of baronet.
1760. T. Hutchinson, Hist. Col. Mass., i. (1765), 128. He obtained also a grant of a baronettage of Nova-Scotia.
1818. Blackw. Mag., III. 711. Baronetages have been conferred on them.
2. The order of baronets, the body of baronets collectively.
1876. Echo, 6 Dec., 1/6. This family is of great antiquity, and in point of precedence the second in the baronetage.
1882. Standard, 30 Dec., 2/4. In the Baronetage the following deaths have taken place.
b. A list of the order of baronets; a book giving such a list with historical and other particulars.
1720. A. Collins (title-p.), The Baronettage of England, being an Historical and Genealogical Account of Baronets.
c. 1815. Miss Austen, Persuas. (1833), I. i. 215. Sir Walter Elliot … for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage. (Titles of Annuals) Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage; Debrett’s Baronetage with Knightage.
