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Meaning of 'libertine' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Libertine [ n.]
- A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
- 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.
- 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.
- A defamatory name for a freethinker.
- Free from restraint; uncontrolled.
- Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.

Meaning of 'libertine' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . libertine [ s]
Meaning (1):
- unrestrained by convention or morality
Example in sentence:
  • Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society;
  • deplorably dissipated and degraded;
  • fast women;
  • riotous living

Nearby Words:

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