ochlocracy
noun
government by the mob; mob rule; mobocracy.
ochlocratic
-
a word derived from
ochlocracy.
Example Sentences
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He explicitly called the Puritans an ochlocratic sect.
From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke
