Usage examples (31)

• A democracy that departed from the civil and political equality which was its supposed basis, and gave ascendancy to a faction, was sometimes designated by the term...
• The latter is rightly called "ochlocracy" -- mob rule.
• If we lived in a mobocracy (also known as ochlocracy) we would vote and the majority would rule on every little issue.
• "ochlocracy," or government by the mob, in which the numbers have no real share: an oligarchy of the fiercest, the noisiest, the rashest, and the most shameless, which...