Associations to the word «Libertine»

Wiktionary

LIBERTINE, noun. (historical) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
LIBERTINE, noun. One who is freethinking in religious matters.
LIBERTINE, noun. Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
LIBERTINE, adjective. Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.

Dictionary definition

LIBERTINE, noun. A dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained.
LIBERTINE, adjective. Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women".

Wise words

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