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Synonyms for mobocracy

Grammar : Noun
Spell : mob-ok-ruh-see
Phonetic Transcription : mɒbˈɒk rə si

Top 10 synonyms for mobocracy
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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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