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libertine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Libertine \Lib"er*tine\ (-t[i^]n), n. [L. libertinus freedman, from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin. See Liberal.]
(Rom. Antiq.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.
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One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee.
Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.
--Shak. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsolescent]
Libertine \Lib"er*tine\, a. [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F. libertin. See Libertine, n. ]
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Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.]
You are too much libertine.
--Beau. & Fl. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "a freedman, an emancipated slave," from Latin 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 French libertin (1540s) originally the name given to certain Protestant sects in France and the Low Countries. Meaning "dissolute or licentious person" first recorded 1590s; the darkening of meaning being perhaps due to misunderstanding of Latin libertinus in Acts vi:9. As an adjective by 1570s.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context historical English) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman. Etymology 2
a. dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals. n. 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.
WordNet
adj. unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, profligate, riotous, fast]
n. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained [syn: debauchee, rounder]
Wikipedia
A libertine is one devoid of most moral or sexual restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour sanctified by the larger society. Libertinism is described as an extreme form of hedonism. Libertines put value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses. As a philosophy, libertinism gained new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, particularly in France and Great Britain. Notable among these were John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and the Marquis de Sade.
A libertine is one free from the restraint of social norms and religious morals.
Libertine may also refer to:
- Ragusian libertine, a silver coin used in the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik, Croatia)
- Linux Libertine, a free software Unicode typeface by the Libertine Open Fonts Project
- Libertine (magazine), the student magazine of Flinders University, South Australia
- "Libertine" (song), a 1986 song by Mylène Farmer
- Libertine, an album by Gene
- Libertine (album), a 1994 album by Silkworm
- "Libertine", a song by Good Riddance
- "Libertine", a song by Utopia
- "Libertine", a song by The Buck Pets on their album Mercurotones
- Libertine, an album by Liv Kristine
"Libertine" is a 1986 song recorded by French artist Mylène Farmer. It was the third single from her first studio album Cendres de Lune and was released on 1 April 1986. It was particularly known for its huge music video, produced as a film and which contains explicit sexual and violent scenes. It met success on the French chart, becoming thus Farmer's first big hit. In 2002, the song was successfully covered by Kate Ryan, who reached the top 20 in several European countries.
Libertine Magazine is the trade name of Lovelace & Carter, Ltd. It is a women’s magazine published on a quarterly basis, featuring topics such science, technology, design, culture, and women in media. The strap line for the publication is “For Widely Interested Women,” highlighting the brand focus on providing a diversity of content in a market that some perceive as narrowly focused on diets and appearance.
Libertine is the third full-length album by indie rock band Silkworm. It was released in 1994 on El Recordo. This was their last recorded release before guitarist/vocalist Joel RL Phelps left the band.
A remastered and expanded 2x12" + CD reissue of this record including the group's "Marco Collins Sessions" and two additional tracks was issued by Comedy Minus One in May 2014.
Libertine is the fourth solo studio album by the Norwegian artist Liv Kristine.
Usage examples of "libertine".
They lauded me for having with proper modesty refrained from quoting the holy fathers of the Church, whom at my age I could not be supposed to have sufficiently studied, and the ladies particularly admired me because there was no Latin in it but the Text from Horace, who, although a great libertine himself, has written very good things.
At this speech, in which my simplicity and good faith could easily be traced, she rose from her chair, and upbraided me with every insult which an outraged honest woman might hurl at the head of a bold libertine who has presumed too far.
This lady did not wish, I suppose, to be selfish, and she gave the souvenir to a libertine who, in his turn, was so generous with it that, in less than a month, I had about fifty clients.
I was nothing if not irreligious, and Venice did not contain a greater libertine.
I felt some repugnance to this course, for though the duke was a shameless libertine I did not like telling him such a disgraceful story.
They did not dare to go to the ball in a costume that would put them at the mercy of all the libertines there.
He can work in sunlight or gaslight, be a monk or a libertine, seven years old or seventy, and all the paintings will achieve the same architectual, impersonal perfection.
You think me godless and a libertine but it is to me, me, me, not the black crows of Puritans that daily infest this house and shall not infest it more that the task of improving the word of the Lord is given.
I suppose he kept well covered, bore disgusting marks of the libertine life he had led.
It has a population of potent libertines ruled by a mysterious demigod with the power to create intelligent beings and restore life to them when lost -- godlike powers indeed!
Ty has a fascination with sexual indulgence that no human libertine could even imagine.
Despite what Whitney thought, Stephen Westmoreland was apparently a libertine, a rake, a hedonist, and a notorious flirt.
Her artlessness, her vivacity, her eager curiosity, and the bashful blushes which spread over her face whenever her innocent or jesting remarks caused me to laugh, everything, in fact, convinced me that she was an angel destined to become the victim of the first libertine who would undertake to seduce her.
In an age when the Premier was a heavy drinker, the Leader of the Opposition a libertine, and the Prince of Wales a combination of the two, it was hard to know where to look for a man whose private and public characters were equally lofty.
Under the influence of champagne, Svidrigailov reminisces about his criminally libertine past, and the morally fastidious Raskolnikov cannot help being shocked.