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Antonyms for mobocracy
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : mob-ok-ruh-see |
Phonetic Transcription : mɒbˈɒk rə si |
Definition of mobocracy
Origin :- "mob rule," 1754, a hybrid from mob (n.) + -cracy. Related: Mobocrat; mobocratic.
- As in lynch law : noun punishment by hanging without due process
- As in chaos : noun utter confusion
- To that point Joseph and his brethren made their escape and enjoyed a brief respite from mobocracy.
- Extract from : « Cowley's Talks on Doctrine » by Matthias F. Cowley
- What we need, to ward off mobocracy and safeguard a civilized form of government, is more of this sniffing.
- Extract from : « In Defense of Women » by H. L. Mencken
- The Manchester merchants are often termed a millocracy, and words of a similar character are mobocracy and moneyocracy.
- Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten
- Mobocracy had triumphed in Missouri, and there was no power in the government to call Missouri to an account for her wrong doing.
- Extract from : « The Life of John Taylor » by B. H. Roberts
- I proceeded to Nauvoo—I gazed upon its ruins—the direful work of mobocracy.
- Extract from : « Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow » by Eliza R. Snow Smith
- The Flemish mobocracy are brought before us with a fidelity and animation surpassing those displayed in Egmont.
- Extract from : « Life Without and Life Within » by Margaret Fuller
- Politics must be annexed to our government by such legal provisions, instead of being left to boss monopoly or mobocracy.
- Extract from : « The Arena » by Various
- These scenes of mobocracy continued to exist with unabated fury.
- Extract from : « History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 » by Joseph Smith
- However, there were many gentlemen who were desirous of peace, and who tried to sooth and quell the spirit of mobocracy.
- Extract from : « Scraps of Biography » by Various
- This looks a little too much like mobocracy, it foretells some evil intentions.
- Extract from : « History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 » by Joseph Smith
Synonyms for mobocracy
- anarchy
- ataxia
- bedlam
- clutter
- criminal syndicalism
- disarray
- discord
- disorder
- disorganization
- entropy
- free-for-all
- gang rule
- holy mess
- kangaroo court
- lawlessness
- misrule
- mix-up
- mob law
- mob rule
- mobocracy
- muddle
- ochlocracy
- pandemonium
- rat's nest
- reign of terror
- snarl
- syndicalism
- topsy-turviness
- tumult
- turmoil
- unruliness
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