Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or relating to mobocracy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to mobocracy.

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Examples

  • Lincoln spoke of this as a disease of the "mobocratic" spirit.

    David Bromwich: Obama on Civility and Lincoln on the Rule of Law David Bromwich 2011

  • Lincoln spoke of this as a disease of the "mobocratic" spirit.

    David Bromwich: Obama on Civility and Lincoln on the Rule of Law David Bromwich 2011

  • Lincoln spoke of this as a disease of the "mobocratic" spirit.

    David Bromwich: Obama on Civility and Lincoln on the Rule of Law David Bromwich 2011

  • South Carolinians would not tolerate the supposedly mobocratic agitation of a Southern Republican Party.

    Frank Williams: What motivated South carolin to secede so quickly? Frank Williams 2010

  • The suppressed groans of the toiling masses are echoed and reëchoed from every corner of the land, and burst forth in mobocratic fury that the entire police authority finds it almost impossible to stay.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Others, such as Trotter, claimed that the only way to prevent riots was to end “the mobocratic lyncherized system” of segregation, discrimination, and prejudice in America.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Others, such as Trotter, claimed that the only way to prevent riots was to end “the mobocratic lyncherized system” of segregation, discrimination, and prejudice in America.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Others, such as Trotter, claimed that the only way to prevent riots was to end “the mobocratic lyncherized system” of segregation, discrimination, and prejudice in America.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • The suppressed groans of the toiling masses are echoed and reëchoed from every corner of the land, and burst forth in mobocratic fury that the entire police authority finds it almost impossible to stay.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • The suppressed groans of the toiling masses are echoed and reëchoed from every corner of the land, and burst forth in mobocratic fury that the entire police authority finds it almost impossible to stay.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

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