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lib·er·tine
(lĭb′ər-tēn′)n.
1. One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person.
2. One who defies established religious precepts; a freethinker.
adj.
Morally unrestrained; dissolute.
[Middle English, freedman, from Latin lībertīnus, from lībertus, from līber, free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots.]
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libertine
(ˈlɪbəˌtiːn; -ˌtaɪn)n
a morally dissolute person
adj
morally dissolute
[C14 (in the sense: freedman, dissolute person): from Latin lībertīnus freedman, from lībertus freed, from līber free]
ˈliberˌtinage, ˈlibertinˌism n
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lib•er•tine
(ˈlɪb ərˌtin, -tɪn)n.
1. a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained; a profligate; rake.
2. a freethinker in religious matters.
3. a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome.
adj. 4. free of moral, esp. sexual, restraint; licentious.
[1350–1400; Middle English libertyn < Latin lībertīnus of a freedman (adj.), freedman (n.) =lībert(us) freedman (appar. by reanalysis of liber-tās liberty as libert-ās) + -īnus -ine1]
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Noun | 1. | libertine - a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained adulterer, fornicator - someone who commits adultery or fornication bad person - a person who does harm to others philanderer, womaniser, womanizer - a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them |
Adj. | 1. | libertine - unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" immoral - deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong |
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libertine
noun
1. reprobate, seducer, profligate, womanizer, rake, swinger (slang), lecher, roué, sensualist, voluptuary, debauchee, lech or letch (informal), loose liver a self-confessed coward, libertine and scoundrel
adjective
1. promiscuous, degenerate, immoral, decadent, abandoned, corrupt, voluptuous, depraved, wanton, profligate, debauched, dissolute, rakish, reprobate, licentious He was free to explore a libertine lifestyle.
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libertine
nounAn immoral or licentious person:
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