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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats