rabblement

[ rab-uhl-muhnt ]

noun

1. a tumult; disturbance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rabblement¹

First recorded in 1535–45; rabble ¹ + -ment

Example Sentences

It was also an attack, from a crenelated embankment, on what he called the “School of Resentment” — critics and scholars he would later describe, in a 1991 Paris Review interview, as “displaced social workers” and “a rabblement of lemmings.”

From New York Times

Exhorted to sobriety, upbraided for excesses which stained the holy cause in the face of Europe, the rabblement sulkily withdrew, gnashing their teeth and snarling with gestures of menace, as they filed past the queen; and she watched them go in gloomy silence, with a heart that welled with horror and eyes that swam in tears.

From Project Gutenberg

He had no intention of heading the forlorn hope of a misguided rabblement who would fly helter-skelter before the first puff of cannon smoke.

From Project Gutenberg

Jack Cade's rabblement was no whit more laughable an assemblage than the army which Robert proposed to lead to victory.

From Project Gutenberg

The gates were closed on the expulsion of the rabblement so quickly that many stragglers among the royalists were left without to batter on the wood in vain.

From Project Gutenberg