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Libertine
//ˈlɪb.ɚ.tin// adj, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
Adjective
- 1 unrestrained by convention or morality wordnet
Noun
- 1 Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman. historical
- 2 One who is freethinking in religious matters.
- 3 a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained wordnet
- 4 Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
"So the truth of the matter is that a libertine in love, if indeed a libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Latin libertinus (“a freedman, prop. adj., of or belonging to the condition of a freedman”), from libertus (“a freedman”), from liber (“free”); see liberal, liberate.
Etymology 2
From French libertin.
Etymology 3
From French libertin.
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