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mobocrat

mobocrat noun: one who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.

Noun

mobocrat (plural mobocrats)

  1. 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 of mobocrat

pluralmobocrats

Origin of mobocrat

From mob + -o- + -crat.

Questions about mobocrat

What does mobocrat mean?
Mobocrat means one who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
What part of speech is mobocrat?
Mobocrat is a noun.
What is the plural of mobocrat?
The plural of mobocrat is mobocrats.

Words near mobocrat in the dictionary

  1. mobniks
  2. mobo
  3. mobocertinib
  4. mobocracies
  5. mobocracy
  6. mobocrat
  7. mobocratic
  8. mobocratical
  9. mobocrats
  10. mobola plum
  11. mobola plums

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