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Libertine   /lˈɪbərtˌin/   Listen
noun
Libertine  n.  
1.
(Rom. Antiq.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
2.
(Eccl. Hist.) 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.
3.
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. "Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads."
4.
A defamatory name for a freethinker. (Obsolescent)


adjective
Libertine  adj.  
1.
Free from restraint; uncontrolled. (Obs.) "You are too much libertine."
2.
Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.





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"Libertine" Quotes from Famous Books



... all about me, so that now you find I am somewhat of a novelty. It is not your wife you are seeking now, but a woman with whom you have formerly had a rupture, and with whom you now desire to make up. To speak the truth you are simply playing the game of a libertine. ...
— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant
... arguer, to whom it is a great misfortune that there are not three sides to a question—a libertine in argument; conviction, like enjoyment, palls him, and his rakish understanding is soon satiated with truth—more capable of being faithful to a paradox—'I love truth as I do my wife; but sophistry and paradoxes are my mistresses—I ...
— Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan V1 • Thomas Moore
... revolted than if she had heard a libertine whispering shameful proposals in her ear. "Silence! I forbid you to add another word." To speak of another—what sacrilege! Poor girl. She was one of those whose life is bound up in one love alone, and if that fails them—it ...
— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... mother-in-law make mention of Ameline, it was because they were on the worst possible terms with that young lady, who had lived, nearly from the period of her first appearance upon the boards, under the protection of the accomplished libertine, Count J——, over whom she was said to exercise extraordinary influence. When she formed this connexion, Madame Sendel, who—in spite of her suspicion of paint and artificial floriculture—had very strict notions of propriety, wrote her a ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
... charms, thou fanciest will redeem Yon aweless Libertine from rooted vice. Misleading thought! has he not paid the price, His taste for virtue?—Ah, the sensual stream Has flow'd too long.—What charms can so entice, What frequent guilt so pall, as not to shame The rash belief, presumptuous ...
— Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace • Anna Seward


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