Libertine
WordNet

adjective


(1)   Unrestrained by convention or morality
"Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"
"Deplorably dissipated and degraded"
"Riotous living"
"Fast women"

noun


(2)   A dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
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Etymology


< < < ; see liberal, liberate.

Noun



  1. Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
  2. One who is freethinking in religious matters.
  3. 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, Dangerous Liaisons, tr. Helen Constantine, Penguin 2007, p. 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.

Adjective



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