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Definition of Mobocracy
1. Noun. A political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses.
Definition of Mobocracy
1. n. A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.
Definition of Mobocracy
1. Noun. Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mobocracy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mobocracy
Literary usage of Mobocracy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Times of Wendell Phillips by George Lowell Austin (1888)
""The Commercial Gazette " excites the mobocracy. — The Ladies assemble at the Hall.
— The Opening Exercises. — The Mob gain Possession of the Hall. ..."
2. Judge Haliburton's Yankee Stories by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1846)
"ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY AND YANKEE mobocracy WHEN we have taken our tower, said the
Clockmaker, I estimate I will return to the J7-nited States for good and all ..."
3. A Memorial Volume of American History: McKinley and Men of Our Times by Edward Leigh Pell, James William Buel, James Penny Boyd (1901)
"The world savage, and the world civilized has been in the control of mobocracy;
absence of authority, save that seized by hands having the temporary ..."
4. The Land of Promise; Or, My Impressions of Australia by William Shaw (1854)
"... its Contents—Diggers at Work— Prospecting Hints—Mining Rights—Method of
Abstraction—Form of License—mobocracy Repressed — Right Overawes Might—Rifling a ..."
5. The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick, of Slickville. To by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1839)
"ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY AND YANKEE mobocracy. WHEN we have taken our tower, said the
Clockmaker, I estimate I will return to the £/-nited States for good and ..."
6. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1834)
"mobocracy ! The largest and most respectable portion of the audience. Truly a
mobocracy ! (2.) « Error 3d.—"Mr. Maxwell then took his hat and invited all ..."
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