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libertine

li·ber·tine

UK/ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn/ US/ˈlɪb.ɚ.tin/ rare
noun (1) adjective (1)

noun

1.

adjective

1.

unrestrained by convention or morality

  • “Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”
  • “deplorably dissipated and degraded”
  • “riotous living”
  • “fast women”
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From Latin libertinus (“a freedman, prop. adj., of or belonging to the condition of a freedman”), from libertus (“a freedman”), from liber (“free”); see liberal, liberate.

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