rabblement

American  

[rab-uhl-muhnt] / ˈræb əl mənt /

noun

1. a tumult; disturbance.

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Etymology

Origin of rabblement

First recorded in 1535–45; rabble ¹ + -ment

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Example Sentences

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rabblement

But, Jim, my boy, though you’re a baa-waa body, And gan about like a goose with a nicked head, You’ve, aiblains, found out now that petticoats Are kittle-cattle, the whole rabblement.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

I have the Lady Joan and her maid to think on, 'twould be an ill fate theirs in the hands of yon filthy rabblement.

From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

Two other cuts—mere rabblement and eyesore—leave on the mind a feeling of disgust almost without interest and without shame.

From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson

Him and the rabblement with him, most of them unarmed, they suppressed; on proceeding, however, against the Carcini in whose keeping the robbers had deposited their booty, they encountered trouble.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio

Stand back, I say, all three,   And leave this wicked rabblement to me.

From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Jeffery Farnol

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