This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
metanoia
cremnophobia
ochlocracy
enantiodromia
obverse

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ahk-LAHK-ruh-see)

MEANING:

noun: Government by the mob; mob rule.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Middle French ochlocratie (mob rule), from Greek ochlokratia (mob rule), from ochlos (mob) + -kratia (-cracy, rule). Earliest documented use: 1594.

USAGE:

“No heresy in our time is more noxious than trying to implant ochlocracy in the Church. And that’s what you’re trying to do.”
Jorge Amado; The War of the Saints; Bantam; 1993.

See more usage examples of ochlocracy in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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