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Definition of Libertine
1. Noun. A dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained.
Specialized synonyms: Adulterer, Fornicator, Gigolo, Blood, Profligate, Rake, Rakehell, Rip, Roue, Ladies' Man, Lady Killer, Seducer, Swinger, Tramp, Debaucher, Ravisher, Violator, Philanderer, Womaniser, Womanizer
Generic synonyms: Bad Person
Derivative terms: Debauch
2. Adjective. Unrestrained by convention or morality. "Fast women"
Similar to: Immoral
Derivative terms: Degenerate, Dissoluteness, Profligate, Riot
Definition of Libertine
1. n. A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
2. a. Free from restraint; uncontrolled.
Definition of Libertine
1. Noun. (historical) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman. ¹
2. Noun. One who is freethinking in religious matters. ¹
3. Noun. Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker. ¹
4. Adjective. Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Libertine
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Libertine
Literary usage of Libertine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"This phrase originated with Shakespeare, " Henry V.," Act i., Se. i : when he
speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. The application of the term ..."
2. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... though without being actually an infidel or a libertine, Fontaine told him,
that " he had lately bellowed fome hours in reading the New ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A libertine of the aristocratic class. The original oí this character was Don
Juan Teño'rio of Seville, who lived in the fourteenth century. ..."
4. An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to by John Hanbury Dwyer (1856)
"CHARACTER OF A Libertine. A man horn for the disaster of the sex; whose brutal
and ungovernable passions, mastering every sentiment of pity and generosity ..."
5. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... that both in AD 1584. judgment and practice he seemed rather libertine therein.
In a word, he had in my time a wife, with whom for many years he never ..."
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