libertinagen.
/ˈlɪbətɪnɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈlɪbərˌtinɪdʒ/ 1. Behaviour characteristic of a libertine; dissoluteness, licentiousness; = libertinism n. 2.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [noun]
goleshipc1000
golenessa1050
kaggerleȝcc1175
untowenshipa1250
follyc1300
wantonnessc1390
ragerya1393
nicetya1400
wantonhead1435
lightnessa1450
gole?a1500
free will?1518
nicenessa1533
looseness1576
licentiousness1586
waggishness1591
libertinage1611
libertinism1611
licence1713
fastness1859
permissiveness1946
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Libertinage, Libertinage, Epicurisme, sensualitie, licentiousnesse, dissolutenesse.
1639 F. Marcombes in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. IV. 98 Hauing tasted allready a litle drope of ye Libertinage of ye Court.
1730 F. Bruys Art knowing Women ii. 10 A Mother who, most frequently, instead of stopping the Career of their irregular Appetites, encourages them in Libertinage.
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. iv. 27 The libertinage which..prevails..must..render them..unfit for bearing children.
1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) II. 181 The General..was..famous for libertinage and debauchery.
1873 S. Smiles Huguenots in France i. xiii. 259 The upper classes..were given up for the most part to frivolity and libertinage.
1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove v. 22 They think of nothing but..how they may escape to the woods to lead a life of libertinage with the Indian women.
1971 M. Poster Utopian Thought of Restif de la Bretonne vii. 102 Restif was instructed in systematic libertinage by Abbé Gaudet d'Arras, a renegade Cordelier who..urged him to seduce Madame Parangon.
1994 D. G. Kropf Authorship as Alchemy i. 51 Male libertinage goes hand in hand with a notorious reputation.
2. Free-thinking in religious matters; = libertinism n. 1. Now historical.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > free thought > [noun]
private judgement1565
libertinism1575
libertism1652
libertinage1654
free-thinking?1700
free-thought1711
liberalism1823
1654 T. White Apol. Rushworth's Dialogues 224 The aspersion laid upon St. Hierom, St. Ambrose, annd Tertullian, as using Tragical expressions, without occasion, is but a gap to Libertinage and vilifying of vertue.
1660 R. Blome Fanatick Hist. i. 5 Anabaptism, being a doctrine of licentiousness and libertinage.
1754 W. Warburton Princ. Nat. & Revealed Relig. II. xv. 199 Erasmus..thought he saw under all their fondness for the Language of old Rome, a growing libertinage, which disposed them to think slightly of the Christian Faith.
1864 J. H. Merle D'Aubigné Hist. of Reformation in Europe I. i. 6 Because he was the enemy of libertinage, he has been called the enemy of liberty.
1921 Isis 4 56 The transition..from Averroistic libertinage to modern freethought.
1960 Church Hist. 29 428 Such libertinage did lead to blasphemy.
2006 Tin House Winter 222/2 Casanova believed in the eighteenth-century philosophical doctrine of libertinage based on independence from and disregard for Christian dogma.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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