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单词 mob-courtship
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mob-courtship
mob-courtship n. Obsolete the action of courting the masses; (also) courtship among members of the common people (rare).
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1833 United Service Jrnl. June 265 The small shopkeepers, who..would barter the substantial protection they more especially derive from the new police establishment for a speculation of bringing grist to the mill per favour of mob courtship.
1872 Punch 27 Jan. 36/1 A soul above fear of the Rabble he shows; Is that to be said, British Statesman, of you? Or is it that you, whom mob-courtship doth move,..do follow the worse?
1883 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera xc. 167 There are no words strong enough to express the general danger and degradation of the manners of mob-courtship, as distinct from these.
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