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mobocracy

[mob-ok-ruh-see]
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noun, plural mob·oc·ra·cies.
  1. political control by a mob.
  2. the mob as a ruling class.
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Origin of mobocracy

First recorded in 1745–55; mob1 + -o- + -cracy
Related formsmob·o·crat [mob-uh-krat] /ˈmɒb əˌkræt/, nounmob·o·crat·ic, mob·o·crat·i·cal, adjective
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Examples from the Web for mobocracy

Historical Examples

  • To that point Joseph and his brethren made their escape and enjoyed a brief respite from mobocracy.

    Cowley's Talks on Doctrine

    Matthias F. Cowley

  • What we need, to ward off mobocracy and safeguard a civilized form of government, is more of this sniffing.

    In Defense of Women

    H. L. Mencken

  • The Manchester merchants are often termed a millocracy, and words of a similar character are mobocracy and moneyocracy.

    The Slang Dictionary

    John Camden Hotten

  • Mobocracy had triumphed in Missouri, and there was no power in the government to call Missouri to an account for her wrong doing.

  • I proceeded to Nauvoo—I gazed upon its ruins—the direful work of mobocracy.

British Dictionary definitions for mobocracy

mobocracy

noun plural -cies
  1. rule or domination by a mob
  2. the mob that rules
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Derived Formsmobocrat (ˈmɒbəˌkræt), nounmobocratic or mobocratical, adjective
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Word Origin and History for mobocracy

n.

"mob rule," 1754, a hybrid from mob (n.) + -cracy. Related: Mobocrat; mobocratic.

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