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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained;
[syn: libertine, debauchee, rounder]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. unrestrained by convention or morality;
- Example: "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"
- Example: "deplorably dissipated and degraded"
- Example: "riotous living"
- Example: "fast women"
[syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Libertine \Lib"er*tine\ (-t[i^]n), n. [L. libertinus freedman, from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin. See Liberal.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman. [1913 Webster] 2. (Eccl. Hist.) 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. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsolescent] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Libertine \Lib"er*tine\, a. [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F. libertin. See Libertine, n. ] 1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] You are too much libertine. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

libertine adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast] n 1: a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained [syn: libertine, debauchee, rounder]