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''mobocracy'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260904134559-00-⌔
mobocracy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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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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Link to original Footnotes
2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2010, page 270: ↩
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