mobocrat en · NOUN
Etymology
From mob + -o- + -crat.
Meanings
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One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
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.
1879, Peter Bayne, Lessons from my Masters — Carlyle, Tennyson, and Ruskin:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mobocrats | Number=Plur | lexicographic |