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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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Mob

rabble +

-cracy

, as in

democracy

A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.

It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a

mobocracy

Walpole.

mobocracy ‎(plural mobocracies)

Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2010, p. 270:
  That this ultrareactionary mobocracy was composed mainly of people with brown skins ought to have made no difference.

rule of the mob