Libertine (song)
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
WiktionaryText
Etymology
< < < ; see liberal, liberate.
Noun
- Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
- One who is freethinking in religious matters.
- 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.
- 2007, Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, tr. Helen Constantine, Penguin 2007, p. 123,
Adjective
- Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.