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单词 pollarchy
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pollarchyn.

Brit. /ˈpɒləki/, U.S. /ˈpɑləki/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek πολλοί , -archy comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek πολλοί (in οἱ πολλοί the multitude, the masses: see hoi polloi n.) + -archy comb. form, after monarchy n., oligarchy n., etc.
Chiefly Politics. Now rare.
Rule or government by the masses; (also) the masses as a ruling body or political force. Cf. mobocracy n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of the mob
ochlocratia1584
ochlocracy1594
mob government1703
mobocracy1754
mob law1809
mob-rule1837
pollarchy1853
1853 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 337 Democracy became a synonym for—what would have been more properly termed a pollarchy—the government of the many.
1862 W. H. Russell My Diary North & South II. 340 A contest..between those representing the oligarchical principle and the pollarchy.
1881 Academy 15 Oct. 287 Pollarchy..if used with circumspection would raise any rural person.
1911 Times 4 Feb. 6/1 Your pampered pollarchy is incapable of declaring war, and all that you are good for, after the event, is war-demagogism à la Caius Flaminius.
1966 D. Dunnett Disorderly Knights (1997) iii. 484 I am here,..a refugee from pollarchy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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