Libertinage
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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 […]"
Example
More examples"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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