Ochlocracy vs Ochlagogy - What's the difference?
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Mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy.
English words suffixed with -cracy
(rare) Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
* 1962 : Cecil John Ellington and A. G. Russell of the Classical Association (Great Britain), Greece and Rome , “Peripatos: The Athenian Philosophical Scene?—?II”,
Ochlocracy is a related term of ochlagogy.
As nouns the difference between ochlocracy and ochlagogy
is that ochlocracy is mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy while ochlagogy is (rare) manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.ochlocracy
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(wikipedia ochlocracy)Noun
(ochlocracies)Derived terms
* ochlocrat * ochlocratic * ochlocratical * ochlocraticallyReferences
ochlagogy
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Noun
(-)page 21(The Clarendon Press)
- One can imagine what Epicurus would have thought of the ochlagogy of Herodes Atticus and his contemporaries, and the noisy demonstrations which it evoked.