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Found 2 items, similar to Libertine.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: libertine
libertine
adj : unrestrained by convention or morality;
“Congreve draws a
debauched aristocratic society”;
“deplorably dissipated
and degraded”;
“riotous living”;
“fast women” [syn:
debauched,
degenerate,
degraded,
dissipated,
dissolute,
profligate,
riotous,
fast]
n : a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally
unrestrained [syn:
debauchee,
rounder]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Libertine
Libertine
\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.
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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.
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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.
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Like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.
--Shak.
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4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsolescent]
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Libertine
\Lib"er*tine\, a. [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F.
libertin. See
Libertine, n. ]
1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.]
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You are too much libertine. --Beau. & Fl.
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2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as,
libertine principles or manners. --Bacon.
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