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barony - use in sentences
Possessives
- father: In January 1751 Clarendon was summoned by the ministry in his father's barony.
Adjective modifier
- large: Large baronies were later subdivided until there were 58 baronies in the area that comprises the present day Northern Ireland.
Converse of object
- hold: Of this Earl little is known; he held the barony for only five years, dying in 1744.
- call: There is also correspondence, etc, relating to calling the barony out of abeyance again in favor of Una Mary Ross, 1943.
- acquire: Philip, Earl of Arundel, married Anne, the eldest of the three girls, and acquired the barony of Greystoke.
- obtain: The fact is you CAN obtain a barony for a fraction of what these colluding companies demand of you in payment.
- include: The parish formerly included the barony of Kincardine, which was separated from it in 1672, and added to the parish of Tulliallan.
- give: After winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Copenhagen in April he was made a Viscount and given a further barony.
Adjective modifier
- feudal: I have held the feudal Scots Barony of Greenan for over 10 years.
- Scottish: This letter from the contented buyer of a Scottish barony should be of interest to readers who wish to acquire genuine titles.
- ancient: The ancient barony of Mearns and Pollok thus came into the hands of the Maxwells.
- great: From this chain of dependence, a kingdom may be considered as a great barony, and a barony as a small kingdom.
Noun used with modifier
- peerage: Here we have the confusion between a feudal barony and a peerage barony.
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