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UK
/ɒtʃlˈɒkɹəsi/
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NOUN
- a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses
How To Use ochlocracy In A Sentence
- She enjoyed her trip to Canada, where she addressed Parliament, throwing in a few words like “ochlocracy” (mob rule) and “immane” (monstrously cruel). The Last Empress
- Ms. Pakula notes the way Mme. Chiang loved to deploy esoteric words ("indehiscence, " "ochlocracy") in her speeches in English, sending reporters scrambling for their dictionaries.
- Hence Pythagoras and his disciples, though they were vegetable-eaters, eschewed the bean as an article of diet, from its association with politics, demagogism, and ochlocracy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
