libertine

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn/

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From Latin libertinus (“a freedman, prop. adj., of or belonging to the condition of a freedman”), from libertus (“a freedman”), from liber (“free”); see liberal, liberate.

libertine (plural libertines)

1. (historical) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.

From French libertin.

libertine (plural libertines)

1. One who is freethinking in religious matters.
2. Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
   • 2007, Choderlos de Laclos, translated by Helen Constantine, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 123:

     So the truth of the matter is that a libertine in love, if indeed a libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh.

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

• liberate
• liberal
• liberty

libertine (comparative more libertine, superlative most libertine)

1. Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.

• libertinism
• libertinage

• “libertine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “libertine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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libertine

1. feminine singular of libertin

libertine f

1. plural of libertina

lībertīne

1. vocative masculine singular of lībertīnus