mobocracy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
mobocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mobocracies)
- Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.
- ✤ That this ultrareactionary mobocracy was composed mainly of people with brown skins ought to have made no difference.1
Etymology
From mob + -o- + -cracy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /mɒbˈɒkɹəsi/
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Footnotes
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2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2010, page 270: ↩