mobocracy
noun
political control by a mob.
mobocratic
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a word derived from
mobocracy.
Example Sentences
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At the Lyceum, Lincoln urged that the country’s growing mobocratic spirit be replaced by “cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason”; that “reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
In spite of persecution both mobocratic and judicially sanctioned, in spite of assaults, drivings, and slaughter, the Church has developed with marvelous rapidity and strength since the day of its organization.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
The mobocratic demonstrations in the Northern States were the thermometer of public feeling upon the subject of slavery.
From History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
The presence of slavery may be explained by—as it is the explanation of—the mobocratic violence which lately disgraced New York, and which still more recently disgraced the city of Boston.
From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
There was a large number of people together—more than could obtain admission to the room, and a large company of mobocratic spirits crowded around the door.
From The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. by Lunsford Lane
