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1. (n.) libertine
a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained; a profligate; rake.
2. libertine
a freethinker in religious matters.
3. libertine
a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome.
4. (adj.) libertine
free of moral, esp. sexual, restraint; licentious.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME libertyn < L lībertīnus of a freedman (adj.), freedman (n.) =lībert(us) freedman (appar. by reanalysis of liber-tāsliberty as libert-ās) +-īnus -ine1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) libertine, debauchee, rounder
a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
2. (adj) debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
unrestrained by convention or morality
"Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) libertine
a manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman
2. (noun) libertine
one of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women
3. (noun) libertine
one free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee
4. (noun) libertine
a defamatory name for a freethinker
5. (noun) libertine
free from restraint; uncontrolled
6. (noun) libertine
dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners
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