barony
IPA: bˈɛrʌni
noun
- The domain of a baron or baroness, usually as part of a larger kingdom or empire.
- (historical, Ireland) Synonym of hundred, an English administrative division originally reckoned as comprising 100 hides and in various numbers composing counties.
- (Scotland) Any large manor or estate, regardless of its owner's rank.
- (obsolete) The baronage: the body of barons in a realm.
- Baronship, the rank or position of a baron.
- (law) The legal tenure of a baron's land; military tenure.
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Examples of "barony" in Sentences
- Upon her decease, her son inherited the barony.
- The Earldom went extinct and the Barony abeyant.
- He is a co heir to the abeyant barony of Grandison.
- The 8th baron was attainted and the barony forfeited in 1691.
- The barony was one of the former possessions of the Colt family.
- The barony of Strange remained in abeyance for the next 327 years.
- At the death of fifteenth baron, the barony fell into abeyance in 1697.
- My barony has been a peaceful community, having little need for arms. "
- Civil parishes also vary in size and are grouped together to form a barony.
- On 13 November 1871, the abeyance of the barony was terminated in her favour.
- Barony: there are 331 barony divisions in Ireland and this is thought be originally a Norman land unit.
- The barony is populated by humans, dwarves and gnomes who try to get by in life with simple jobs and adventuring.
- The script is by Julian Fellowes, probably the first Oscar-winning writer to have been ennobled — he was made a life peer by being given a barony in the honors list published in November.
- According to the preamble, The old Scottish family of Person of Lochlands, Pierson of the barony of Balmadies, Forfarshire, and Pearson of the barony of Kippenross, Dunblane, Perthshire, of which the Hon.
- Reavis renamed himself "Peralta-Reavis," and for a while had headquarters for his "barony" at Arizola, a short distance east of Casa Grande, where he maintained his family in state, with his children in royal purple velvet, with monogrammed coronets upon their Russian caps.
- The civil centre of the barony was the great farm or grange, with its mill, for in the thirteenth century the Lowlands had water-mills which to the west Highlands were scarcely known in 1745, when the Highland husbandmen were still using the primitive hand-quern of two circular stones.
- The stepmother loathes her late husband’s offspring and detests sharing the fruits of her deceased husband’s barony, which is beneath her needs as it is She also wants to punish Evelinde for being the brave daughter of her despicable dead spouse; so assumes the Scottish aristocratic barbarian will be a perfect brute for Evelinde.