Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to ochlocracy, or government by the mob; having the character or form of an ochlocracy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to ochlocracy; having the form or character of an ochlocracy; mobocratic.
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- adjective Pertaining to
ochlocracy .
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Examples
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A false democracy ever tends to become ochlocratic, and the only safeguard against such a state of conditions arising in a country where representative government exists is the spread of higher education, and the inculcation of a right conception of the nature and functions of the State and of the duties of citizenship.
The Children: Some Educational Problems Alexander Darroch
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The inevitable result of democracyand particularly is this noticeable in the case of a democracy semi-ochlocratic-is a system of cast-iron bureaucracy in which everything is subordinated to some futile red-tapeish procedure.
Foucault blog 2009
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Thus, we await that ochlocratic level of impatience that brings about the tyrant.
The Ochlophobist 2009
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