Definition of Mobbings

1. mobbing [n] - See also: mobbing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mobbings

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

Literary usage of Mobbings

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

1. Men and Things in America: Or the Experience of a Year's Residence in the by Andrew Bell (1862)
"... and other property (the latter not inconsiderable in value) belonging to the community ; such mobbings and counter-mobbings in places of general resort; ..."

2. The Historical Record by Andrew Jenson (1886)
"He gathered with his father to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831, joined the Church in his early youth and suffered in the mobbings and persecutions in Missouri. ..."

3. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1893)
"... find upon the disgraceful—not to use a stronger term—conduct of Congress towards the loyalists after 1688 is : ' This (ie mobbings, confiscations, &c. ..."

4. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"A mania for anti-slavery meetings, lynching, riots and negro mobbings now swept the country. Nothing like it had ever been experienced. ..."

5. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
"Protests were followed by indictments, and these by mobbings, until she was obliged to give up her school. For her fortitude, the Anti-Slavery Society had ..."

6. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it by Hinton Rowan Helper (1860)
"Look, too, at the mobbings, lynchings, robberies, social and political proscriptions, and all manner of nameless outrages, to which men in the South have ..."

7. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"The struggle to establish slavery in Kansas; the frequent murders and mobbings, in the south, of northern citizens ; the present turbulence and violence of ..."

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