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noun
1.
a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.
2.
a freethinker in religious matters.
3.
a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome.
adjective
4.
free of moral, especially sexual, restraint; dissolute; licentious.
5.
freethinking in religious matters.
6.
Archaic. unrestrained; uncontrolled.
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Libertine
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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English libertyn < Latin lībertīnus of a freedman (adj.), freedman (noun), equivalent to lībert(us) freedman (apparently by reanalysis of liber-tās liberty as libert-ās) + -īnus -ine1
1350–1400; Middle English libertyn < Latin lībertīnus of a freedman (adj.), freedman (noun), equivalent to lībert(us) freedman (apparently by reanalysis of liber-tās liberty as libert-ās) + -īnus -ine1
Synonyms
1. roué, debauchee, lecher, sensualist. 4. amoral, sensual, lascivious, lewd.
1. roué, debauchee, lecher, sensualist. 4. amoral, sensual, lascivious, lewd.
Antonyms
1. prude.
1. prude.
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Example Sentences
- In the bat world, it seems that you do not have to be cleverer to be a libertine than to be a faithful husband.
- His furtive bravado and reputation as a libertine lend him a personal magnetism that sets him apart from everyone else.
- The drummer is commonly a chartered libertine in the way of conversation.
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Word Origin & History
libertine
late 14c., "an emancipated slave," from L. libertinus "member of a class of freedmen," from libertus "one's freedmen," from liber "free" (see liberal). Sense of "freethinker" is first recorded 1560s, from Fr. libertin (1540s) originally the name given to certain Protestant
EXPANDsects in France and the Low Countries. Meaning "dissolute or licentious person" first recorded 1590s; the darkening of meaning being perhaps due to misunderstanding of L. libertinus in Acts vi.9.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Libertine definition
found only Acts 6:9, one who once had been a slave, but who had been set at liberty, or the child of such a person. In this case the name probably denotes those descendants of Jews who had been carried captives to Rome as prisoners of war by Pompey and other Roman generals in the Syrian wars, and had afterwards been liberated. In A.D. 19 these manumitted Jews were banished from Rome. Many of them found their way to Jerusalem, and there established a synagogue.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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