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Word Meanings - BARONESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • TITLELESS
    Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
  • BARONET
    A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners. Note: The order was founded
  • TITLED
    Having or bearing a title.
  • BARONIAL
    Pertaining to a baron or a barony. "Baronial tenure." Hallam.
  • TITLER
    A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
  • BARONAGE
    1. The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet. 2. The dignity or rank of a baron. 3. The land which gives title to a baron.
  • BARONG
    A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.
  • RIGHT-ANGLED
    Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
  • RIGHTEOUS
    Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
  • RIGHTEN
    To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
  • RIGHT-LINED
    Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
  • BARON
    A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port.
  • RIGHT-MINDED
    Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • RIGHT-HANDED
    Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances
  • TITLE-PAGE
    The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.
  • RIGHT-HEARTED
    Having a right heart or disposition. -- Right"-heart`ed*ness, n.
  • RIGHTEOUSLY
    In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
  • BARONETAGE
    1. State or rank of a baronet. 2. The collective body of baronets.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
  • SPRIGHTLY
    Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
  • FRIGHTFUL
    1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
  • SHRIGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
  • UPRIGHTNESS
    the quality or state of being upright.
  • OVERRIGHTEOUS
    Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
  • AFFRIGHTER
    One who frightens.
  • EMBRIGHT
    To brighten.
  • WRIGHT
    One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
  • SELF-RIGHTEOUS
    Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.
  • SPRIGHTFUL
    Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay. -- Spright"ful*ly, adv. Shak. -- Spright"ful*ness, n. Spoke like a sprightful gentlemen. Shak. Steeds sprightful as the light. Cowley.

 

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