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libertine

[ lib-er-teen, -tin ]

noun

  1. a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.

    Synonyms: sensualist, lecher, debauchee, roué

    Antonyms: prude

  2. a freethinker in religious matters.
  3. a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome.


adjective

  1. free of moral, especially sexual, restraint; dissolute; licentious.

    Synonyms: lewd, lascivious, sensual, amoral

  2. freethinking in religious matters.
  3. Archaic. unrestrained; uncontrolled.

libertine

/ ˈlɪbəˌtiːn; -ˌtaɪn /

noun

  1. a morally dissolute person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. morally dissolute
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈliberˌtinage, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of libertine1

1350–1400; Middle English libertyn < Latin lībertīnus of a freedman (adj.), freedman (noun), equivalent to lībert ( us ) freedman (apparently by reanalysis of liber-tās liberty as libert-ās ) + -īnus -ine 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of libertine1

C14 (in the sense: freedman, dissolute person): from Latin lībertīnus freedman, from lībertus freed, from līber free
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Example Sentences

Prince may have pranced around like a carefree libertine onstage, but in rehearsal he was more drill sergeant than sprite.

In this way, bisexual is code for libertine, which is something else altogether.

Game of Thrones had an overly sensual libertine while House of Cards had a manipulative psychopath.

And they were both these libertine figures during their lives.

She sought to arouse what attention she could by running for governor as the most libertine of libertarians.

The young scholar always allows himself a number of libertine sonnets, and we avow it is particularly disagreeable to us.

I doubt it, sire, and I advise you to send away this libertine St. Luc, who is resolved not to amend.

He knew absolutely nothing about her except the story she told of childish innocence and the whims of a selfish libertine.

Thus, under a libertine prince, the destinies of France were at the mercy of a valet de chambre.

A man whos got a code of morals is moral, whether hes a libertine, a horse thief or—a minister.

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