ochlocracy
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Etymology
Origin of ochlocracy
1475–85; < Greek ochlokratía, equivalent to óchl ( os ) mob + -o- -o- + -kratia -cracy
Example Sentences
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The pure forms—necessary to the process of evolution—are, in so far as they are finite and in course of change, conjoined both with forms of their degeneration,—such as ochlocracy, &c., and with earlier transition-forms.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
The contrast between the one and the many—a king or an ochlocracy.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander
By such perversion monarchy passes into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into ochlocracy or mob-rule.
From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.
An ochlocracy is hateful to him, but if he shows himself an 'aristocrat' it is in the literal and etymological meaning of the word.
From The Extant Odes of Pindar by Pindar
Hence Pythagoras and his disciples, though they were vegetable-eaters, eschewed the bean as an article of diet, from its association with politics, demagogism, and ochlocracy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
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