Libertinage

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The conduct or activities of a libertine; licentiousness. countable, uncountable

    "Destroy, with entire unpity, raze to the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progeny of the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom there every day spews forth into society a swarm of new-made creatures […]"

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"Destroy, with entire unpity, raze to the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progeny of the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom there every day spews forth into society a swarm of new-made creatures […]"

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French libertinage.

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