Definition of Libertines

1. Noun. (plural of libertine) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Libertines

1. libertine [n] - See also: libertine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Libertines

liberomotor
liberos
libers
libertarian
libertarian socialism
libertarianism
libertarianisms
libertarians
liberticide
liberticides
libertie
liberties
libertinage
libertinages
libertines (current term)
libertinisms
liberty
liberty cap
liberty chit
liberty of conscience
liberty spike
liberty spikes
libertyless
libethenite
libidinal
libidinal energy
libidinally

Literary usage of Libertines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"9., synagogues belonging to the Alexandrians, the Asiatics, the Cilicians, the libertines, and the Cyrenians, which were erected for such Jewish inhabitants ..."

2. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1896)
"Against Calvin were the libertines, as they were styled. ... United with the " Spirituels," as this class of libertines was termed, were the Patriots, ..."

3. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"United with the "Spirituels," as this class of libertines was termed, were the Patriots, as they styled themselves; those who were for maintaining the ..."

4. The Works of Monsieur De La Bruyere: In Two Volumes. ... The Sixth Edition by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe (1713)
"Of the WITS or libertines: the former is convinc'd and ... in Courts and rule there by turns } the libertines and the Hypocrites : The one openly, gayly, ..."

5. Religious Denominations of the World by Vincent L. Milner, John Newton Brown, Hannah Adams (1872)
"libertines. THE libertines were a religious sect which arose in the year 1525, whose principal tenets were, that the Deity was the sole operating cause in ..."

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