About The Word Libertine
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Libertine
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What's The Definition Of Libertine?
[n] a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
[adj] unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" Synonyms | Synonyms for Libertine: debauched | debauchee | degenerate | degraded | dissipated | dissolute | fast | immoral | profligate | riotous | rounder Related Terms | Find terms related to Libertine: adulterer | amoral | bestial | broad-minded | carnal | Casanova | debauched | debauchee | debaucher | decadent | degenerate | depraved | dirty | dirty old man | dissolute | Don Juan | fast | filthy | fornicator | free lance | free spirit | free trader | freethinker | freethinking | gallant | gay deceiver | gay dog | goatish | heartbreaker | hircine | horny | immoral | incontinent | independent | individualist | isolationist | lady-killer | lascivious | latitudinarian | lecher | lecherous | lewd | liberal | libertarian | libidinous | licentious | Lothario | lover-boy | lubricious | lubricous | lustful | masher | mugwump | neutral | nonpartisan | old goat | open-minded | Paphian | philander | philanderer | philandering | profligate | prurient | rake | rakehell | rakish | randy | reprobate | rip | roue | rounder | rugged individualist | ruttish | salacious | satyric | satyrical | seducer | skirt chaser | swinger | third force | third world | tolerant | unbigoted | walking phallus | wanton | whoremonger | wolf | woman chaser | womanizer See Also | adulterer | bad person | blood | debaucher | fornicator | gigolo | ladies' man | lady killer | philanderer | profligate | rake | ravisher | rip | roue | seducer | swinger | tramp | violator | womaniser | womanizer Libertine In Webster's Dictionary \Lib"er*tine\ (-t[i^]n), n. [L. libertinus freedman,
from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin.
See {Liberal}.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the
son of a freedman.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) 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. 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.
Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the
primrose path of dalliance treads. --Shak.
4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsoles.]
\Lib"er*tine\, a. [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F. libertin. See {Libertine}, n. ] 1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.] You are too much libertine. --Beau. & Fl. 2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. --Bacon. |
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