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

Example Sentences

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 Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

More than one runaway from our troop have joined this rabblement, and that gives some credit to the scandal.

From The Betrothed by Scott, Walter, Sir

In the stage directions of this scene, Shakespeare shows his own opinion of the mob by writing, "Enter Cade and his rabblement."

From Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare by Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich)

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 Dio, Cassius

The gates were closed on the expulsion of the rabblement so quickly that many stragglers among the royalists were left without to batter on the wood in vain.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis