单词 | rabble-rousing |
释义 | rabble-rousingn. The action or process of inflaming the emotions of the populace or of a crowd, typically for political reasons; agitation; trouble-stirring. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > rabble-rousing or demagogy demagogy1655 demagogism1824 demagoguery1866 rabble-rousing1909 hatemongering1917 1909 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 7 Nov. Lawler pulled him out of his comparative obscurity and set him to the work of rabble-rousing. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 18 Sept. 8/2 It is not necessary to pay a great deal of attention to this form of economic rabble rousing. 1962 D. H. Laurence in G. B. Shaw Platform & Pulpit p. xii He was not concerned with rabble-rousing or spell-binding. 1974 A. Ross Bradford Business 9 Heated rabble-rousing in our seats of learning. 1995 New Musical Express 28 Oct. 22/5 Their political concerns have widened, too—..taking a more objective step back from the sloganeering and rabble rousing of the past. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rabble-rousingadj. Intended or tending to inflame the emotions of the populace or of a crowd, typically for political reasons; inflammatory, excitatory. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [adjective] > rabble-rousing or demagogic demagogical1742 rabble-rousing1801 demagogic1831 hatemongering1926 1801 J. Grahame Mary Stewart v. iv, in Poems (1807) II. 201 That trumpet bays to drown The rabble-rousing words of Douglas. 1856 Weekly Argus & Democrat (Madison, Wisconsin) 9 Sept. I look about me and see the havoc made by these fallen, degenerate, rabble rousing ministers. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Aug. 8/2 They are as old as rabble-rousing nationalism itself. 1951 T. Sterling House without Door xi. 126 Mouthing the rabble-rousing opinions of Communist filth. 1976 Eastern Evening News (Norwich) 9 Dec. 2/1 Mussolini made a rabble-rousing appearance in Milan after the Allies had landed in the south. 1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash viii. 206 The parallels were less with the rabble-rousing but ultimately goodhearted Clash, and closer to the appetite-for-destruction throbbing inside Sex Pistols' songs like ‘Anarchy In The UK’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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