Libertine

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Free from restraint; uncontrolled.

II. Libertine ·noun A defamatory name for a freethinker.

III. Libertine ·noun A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

IV. Libertine ·noun Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.

V. Libertine ·noun 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.

VI. Libertine ·noun 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.

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