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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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Libertines
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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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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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