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Definition of Ochlocracies
1. ochlocracy [n] - See also: ochlocracy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ochlocracies
Literary usage of Ochlocracies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by William Graham Sumner (1911)
"They have appeared in autocracies, aristocracies, theocracies, democracies, and
ochlocracies, all alike. ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1799)
"... the moft unruly of ochlocracies;' and heartens, that ' the parliament of that
country is not a complete ..."
3. The Conflict of Colour: The Threatened Upheaval Throughout the World by Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale (1910)
"... phant ochlocracies are so widespread, that the world has rapidly become filled
with a generation of ..."
4. The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde (1905)
"Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few.
High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the ..."
5. Dio's Rome: An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the by Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Joannes Zonaras (1905)
"... the case both of cities and of individuals under kings than under popular
rule, and disasters do not happen so easily in monarchies as in ochlocracies. ..."
6. Carranza and His Bolshevik Regime by Jorge Vera Estañol (1920)
"... but under his patronage the basest of ochlocracies, something less than one
per cent, of the whole nation, has taken possession of the government to the ..."
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