Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the mobocracy or turbulent, mob; a leader of the mob; a demagogue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
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- noun One who favours a form of
government in which theunintelligent populace rules withoutrestraint .
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Examples
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Czolgosz, the obscure assassin of the highest representative of the logic of business development in this country, is inseparably linked as the Siamese twins to the mobocrat, and that any effort made to root out the anarchist in this country will fail, and should fail, unless the mobocrat is rooted out at the same time.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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Yes, but if you leave the Southern mobocrat to shoot John Jones, an unknown entity, the element of anarchism remains pregnant in the body politic and is liable at any time to show its venomous head.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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To think that you, of all people -- my sweetheart -- gone over -- won over by a cursed mobocrat -- a fiend with the blood of our people wet on his hands!
The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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You'd ought to 'a' been here then; you wouldn't wonder at my comin 'down on you like a thousand of brick jest now, takin' you for a mobocrat.
The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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"A mobocrat -- our enemy -- and you have taken favours from him -- a minion of the devil?
The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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I'm a-pantin 'like a tuckered hound -- a-thinkin' he was a cussed milishy mobocrat come to spoil his household! "
The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903
hernesheir commented on the word mobocrat
GNU Webster's 1913: "One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint."
December 16, 2010
qms commented on the word mobocrat
He could be the fattest fat cat
And feeding his greed in plain fact.
The rabble aroused
By lies he’s espoused
Are played by a shrewd mobocrat.
November 30, 2017