mobocracy
Americannoun
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rule or domination by a mob
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the mob that rules
Other Word Forms
- mobocrat noun
- mobocratic adjective
- mobocratical adjective
Etymology
Origin of mobocracy
Example Sentences
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The first movie, punctuating California's small-town sunniness with the thunder of deadpan mobocracy, became a cult classic.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the height of the excitement he mingled freely with the mobocracy when but few men would have been spared if clothed with the same office.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll
He had hardly got home until the clouds of mobocracy intensified by apostasy again gathered around the Prophet.
From Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Whitney, Orson F.
But who was to blame for this spirit of mobocracy?
From The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met by Steight, A. D.
The Flemish mobocracy are brought before us with a fidelity and animation surpassing those displayed in Egmont.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
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