Definition of Mobbing

1. Noun. group bullying ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of mob) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mobbing

1. mob [v] - See also: mob

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mobbing

moat
moated
moating
moatlike
moats
mob-handed
mob cap
mob caps
mob rule
mobbed
mobber
mobbers
mobbie
mobbies
mobbing (current term)
mobbings
mobbish
mobbishly
mobbism
mobbisms
mobble
mobbled
mobbles
mobbling
mobby
mobcap
mobcaps
mobe
mobes

Literary usage of Mobbing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in by Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Alexander Forbes Irvine (1865)
"An Indictment charged the panels with mobbing and Rioting, as also, Breach of the Peace, and with one or other of these crimes, actors or art and part. ..."

2. Manual of the Law of Scotland by John Hill Burton (1847)
"The offence may be committed, even where a legal object is attempted to be accomplished in a tumultuous manner.3 It is held that mobbing may be committed ..."

3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1819)
"That whereas by the laws of tins and of every other well-governed realm, mobbing and rioting, more especially with the intent and purpose of resisting ..."

4. Our Press Gang; Or, A Complete Exposition of the Corruptions and Crimes of by Lambert A. Wilmer (1859)
"SHOWING THAT THE NEWSPAPER PRESS ENCOURAGES AND JUSTIFIES mobbing, TREASON AND REBELLION. Examination of the Fourteenth Charge. WE have now reached the last ..."

5. Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts; Being Concentrated Extracts by Stephen D. Carpenter (1864)
"mobbing of Democrats and Democratic Presses. ... mobbing of Douglas jn Chicago... Republican Mob in Green County, Wis. ...federals, Whigs and Republicans in ..."

6. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1819)
"That whereas by the laws of this and of every other well-governed realm, mobbing and rioting, more especially with the intent and purpose of resisting and ..."

7. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law of Scotland by John Hay Athole Macdonald (1877)
"T OF mobbing. All responsible fur disorderly acts. " move, though there were no noise or other acts, that " would be mobbing and rioting" (]). ..."

8. Great Epochs in American History: Described by Famous Writers from Columbus by Francis Whiting Halsey (1912)
"... mobbing OF GARRISON IN BOSTON (1835) GARRISON'S OWN ACCOUNT1 It was now apparent that the multitude would not disperse until I had left the building; ..."

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