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antimob en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + mob.

Meanings

1. Opposing the actions of a mob.
   • Some had been killed for the offense, one on the basis of a child's schoolyard report of her father's antimob comments at the dinner table. 2002, Robert M. Utley, Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers, page 261:
   • By 1811 and 1812, magistrates like De Witt Clinton used the antimob rhetoric of the late 1790s and moved forcefully to restrain political popular disorder. 1987, Paul A. Gilje, The Road to Mobocracy, page 100:

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