Noun
The state of a libertine or freedman.
Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness.
Licentiousness of principle or opinion.
Source: Webster's dictionary"Liberalism and libertinism are intertwined. The more liberal a woman, the more libertine she'll be-and the more she'll liberate herself to be coarse, immodest, vulgar and plain repulsive. Ilana Mercer
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.) Benjamin Franklin
Charges of Gnostic libertinism find their source in the works of Irenaeus. Source: Internet
Hippolytus claims that they believed that indulgence in sin was the key to salvation because since the body is evil, one must defile it through immoral activity (see libertinism ). Source: Internet
"Neither Joyce's agnosticism nor his sexual libertinism were known to his mentors at Belvedere and he remained to the end a Prefect of the Sodality of Mary." Source: Internet
This said, the heresiological accusation of duplicity in such practises should not be taken at face value; nor should similar accusations of amoral libertinism. Source: Internet