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libertine

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1. libertine - Noun

2. libertine - Adjective

3. libertine - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

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.

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.

A defamatory name for a freethinker.

Free from restraint; uncontrolled.

Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. George Bancroft

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. George Santayana

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete. F. Scott Fitzgerald

For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet. Gustave Flaubert

Our four libertines, half-drunk but nonetheless resolved to abide their laws, contented themselves with kisses, fingerings, but their libertine intelligence knew how to season these mild activities with all the refinements of debauch and lubricity. Marquis de Sade

I realized I'm not the kind of person who wants to go with the flow and fit in. I'm an agitator, I'm opinionated, I'm a libertine and leader. Alexis Arquette

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