Definition of Rabble-rouser

1. Noun. A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices.

Exact synonyms: Demagog, Demagogue
Generic synonyms: Pol, Political Leader, Politician, Politico

Definition of Rabble-rouser

1. Noun. A person who tries to stir up masses of people for political action by appealing to their emotions rather than their reason. A demagogue. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Rabble-rouser

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"rabble-rouser. A demagogue. Sydney Smith in 1802 uses the phrase ... surpasses the munificent promises of a genuine rabble-rouser, just before an election. ..."

2. Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governorby Richard A. Hogarty by Richard A. Hogarty (2001)
"But pejorative words like populism, demagogue, and rabble-rouser were used more to distort and discredit rather than to explain and clarify. ..."

3. Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governorby Richard A. Hogarty by Richard A. Hogarty (2001)
"They saw him as a rabble-rouser, a power-hungry politician, ... But pejorative words like populism, demagogue, and rabble-rouser were used more to distort ..."

4. The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933 by William Harvey Maehl (1986)
"... revisions to the treaty, which would enable German democracy to survive.133 A shrewd politician, affable and prudent, and in no sense a rabble-rouser, ..."

5. The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933 by William Harvey Maehl (1986)
"... revisions to the treaty, which would enable German democracy to survive.185 A shrewd politician, affable and prudent, and in no sense a rabble-rouser, ..."

6. The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West by Baynard Rush Hall (1843)
"Get out! you scornful puppy ! and do not prate to me about religious cant; can any thing come up to the cant and whine of a selfish, godless rabble- rouser ..."

7. The Old Order Changeth: A View of American Democracy by William Allen White (1910)
"Now, these words, however radical they may seem, are not from a rabble rouser. They are from Mr. William Z. Ripley,1 professor of economics at Harvard ..."

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