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ochlocracies

ochlocracies is the plural of ochlocracy.

Meaning of ochlocracy

Noun

ochlocracy (countable and uncountable, plural ochlocracies)

  1. Mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy.
    • Referendums are snapshots of sentiment at a given point in time. Government by referendum is government by crowd acclamation: not democracy, but ochlocracy. That is exactly why we have representative democracy. If referendums would be a poor way to decide on health and safety, air traffic control...2016 July 1, A[nthony] C[lifford] Grayling, “Professor A C Grayling’s letter to all 650 MPs urging Parliament not to support a motion to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty”, in New College of...

Questions about ochlocracies

What is ochlocracies the plural of?
Ochlocracies is the plural of ochlocracy.

Words near ochlocracies in the dictionary

  1. ochlesid
  2. ochlesids
  3. ochlesis
  4. ochletic
  5. ochlo-
  6. ochlocracies
  7. ochlocracy
  8. ochlocrat
  9. ochlocratic
  10. ochlocratical
  11. ochlocratically

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