mobocrat

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Etymology[edit]

mob +‎ -o- +‎ -crat

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mobocrat (plural mobocrats)

  1. One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
    • 1879, Peter Bayne, Lessons from my Masters — Carlyle, Tennyson, and Ruskin:
      he impales the idiotic notion, possibly entertained by a brainless mobocrat here and there, that, if you only perfect your voting apparatus, you are absolutely certain of good government.

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