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adj- Having the mob as a ruling class.

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  • Lincoln spoke of this as a disease of the "mobocratic" spirit.
  • The mobocratic demonstrations in the Northern States were the thermometer of public feeling upon the subject of slavery.
  • It is no great thing after all to be a little better than a lynching -- mobocratic -- slaveholding -- debt repudiating community.
  • He worked between the sluggish conservatism of the anti-slavery element on the one hand, and the violent, mobocratic slave element on the other.
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