Definitions for Libertine
ˈlɪb ərˌtin, -tɪnlib·er·tine

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. libertine, debauchee, rounderadjective

   a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

2. debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fastadjective

   unrestrained by convention or morality

   "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. libertinenoun

   Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.

2. libertinenoun

   One who is freethinking in religious matters.

3. libertinenoun

   Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.

4. libertineadjective

   Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.

5. Etymology: From libertinus, from libertus, from liber; see liberal, liberate.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Libertineadjective

   Licentious; irreligious.

   Etymology: libertin, French.

   There are men that marry not, but chuse rather a libertine and impure single life, than to be yoked in marriage. Francis Bacon.

   Might not the queen make diligent enquiry, if any person about her should happen to be of libertine principles or morals. Jonathan Swift, Project for Advancement of Religion.

2. Libertinenoun

   Etymology: libertin, French.

   1. One unconfined; one at liberty.

   When he speaks,
   The air, a charter’d libertine, is still;
   And the mute wonder lurketh in men’s ears,
   To steal his sweet and honied sentences. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

   2. One who lives without restraint or law.

   Man, the lawless libertine, may rove
   Free and unquestion’d. Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore.

   Want of power is the only bound that a libertine puts to his views upon any of the sex. Clarissa.

   3 . One who pays no regard to the precepts of religion.

   They say this town is full of couzenage,
   As nimble jugglers, that deceive the eye;
   Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
   And many such like libertines of sin. William Shakespeare.

   That word may be applied to some few libertines in the audience. Jeremy Collier, View of the Stage.

   3 4 . [In law; libertinus, Lat.] A freedman; or rather, the son of a freedman.

   Some persons are forbidden to be accusers on the score of their sex, as women; others on the score of their age, as pupils and infants; others on the score of their conditions, as libertines against their patrons. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Libertine

   A libertine is a person devoid of most moral principles, a sense of responsibility, or sexual restraints, which they see as unnecessary or undesirable, and is especially someone who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour observed by the larger society. Libertinism is described as an extreme form of hedonism. Libertines put value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses. As a philosophy, libertinism gained new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, particularly in France and Great Britain.

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1. libertine

   A libertine is a person who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters. They typically reject accepted standards and norms, especially those related to sexual behavior, and value their own personal freedom and pleasure above all else. This term is often associated with someone who leads a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Libertinenoun

   a manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman

2. Libertinenoun

   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. Libertinenoun

   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. Libertinenoun

   a defamatory name for a freethinker

5. Libertinenoun

   free from restraint; uncontrolled

6. Libertinenoun

   dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners

7. Etymology: [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F. libertin. See Libertine, n. ]

WikidataRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Libertine

   A libertine is one devoid of most moral restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour sanctified by the larger society. Libertines place value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses. As a philosophy, libertinism gained new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, particularly in France and Great Britain. Notable among these were John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and the Marquis de Sade. "Libertine" is defined today as "a dissolute person; usually a person who is morally unrestrained". Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand wrote that Joseph Bonaparte "sought only life's pleasures and easy access to libertinism" while on the throne of Naples.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Libertine in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Libertine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Libertine in a Sentence

1. Bill Maher:

   Now, some people think this means I've changed. I assure you, I have not. I am still the same unmarried, childless, pot-smoking libertine I always was, let's get this straight. It's not me who's changed, it's the left who is now made up of a small contingent who've gone mental and a large contingent who refuse to call them out for it, but I will.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Libertine
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Libertine
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Libertine
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertine
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Libertine
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Libertine