mobocrat

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noun

One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.

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Meanings

nounmobocrat (plural mobocrats)

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

Origin

From mob + -o- + -crat.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

motorcab
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APA

mobocrat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mobocrat

MLA

“mobocrat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mobocrat. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mobocrat,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mobocrat.

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