libertine in English

adjective

1

characterized by a disregard of morality, especially in sexual matters.

his more libertine impulses

2

freethinking in matters of religion.

For so long, many religious conservatives have fought for laws to be passed in the face of a culture that was very libertine and pro-choice.

noun

1

a person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters.

The principal character is a delinquent libertine , Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel.

synonyms: philanderer, playboy, rake, roué, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova, Romeo, lecher, seducer, womanizer, adulterer, debauchee, profligate, wanton, skirt-chaser, tomcat, horndog, ladykiller, lech, wolf, fornicator

2

a person who rejects accepted opinions in matters of religion; a freethinker.

The same goes for gnostic Christianity, where we had the strict ascetics on the one hand and the extreme libertines on the other.

adjective

• dissipated, degenerate, dissolute, fast, riotous, degraded, profligate, debauched

noun

• philanderer, playboy, rake, roué, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova, Romeo, lecher, seducer, womanizer, adulterer, debauchee, profligate, wanton, skirt-chaser, tomcat, horndog, ladykiller, lech, wolf, fornicator
• rounder, debauchee

Use "libertine" in a sentence

1. I believe John is not a libertine any more.

2. The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

3. I lost Ruth and gained an undeserved reputation as a potential libertine.

4. But the libertine who turned to religion in maturity seemed to get undue credit.

5. Although he is quite a libertine with the women, this particular President, I understand.

6. Take one step away from those laws and you become a lecher, a libertine, an assassin.

7. A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses a libertine.

8. A man without an address is a vagaband, a man with two addresses is a libertine.

9. 29 For if a libertine knows he can indulge himself with impunity, he will throw all cautions to the winds.

10. For if a libertine knows he can indulge himself with impunity, he will throw all cautions to the winds.

11. In 1886, the collection had increased to slightly more than 700, including many cheap reprints of Libertine novels from the Ancien Régime.

12. John Bolingbroke, the English Tory statesman, orator, man of letters, friend of the Augustan wits, libertine, and deist, was born at Battersea, the son of Sir Henry St

13. The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of the giddy libertine , or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider.

14. Bellini had begun the job by painting “The Feast of the Gods” for the libertine duke, who wanted the best artists in Italy to paint canvases on themes of classical drunken revels.

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