Libertine /(-tĭn)/
Lib·er·tine
Libertine
n.
- A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman. (Rom. Antiq.)
- 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. (Eccl. Hist.)
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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.
- A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsolescent]
Libertine
a.
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Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.]
You are too much libertine.
- Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.