单词 | libertinity |
释义 | libertinityn. The condition or status of being an emancipated slave. Cf. libertine adj. 4. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery > freedman > condition of libertinity1583 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. viii. 113 To bring the owners..thereof into a certaine seruitude or rather libertinitie. 1661 J. Godolphin Συνηγορος Θαλασσιος v. 66 All disputes concerning Liberty or Servitude, Freedome or Bondage, Ingenuity (not of wit, but of birth) or Libertinity. 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Libertinity, the State of a Bondsman made Free. 1928 A. M. Duff Freedmen in Early Rom. Empire iii. 44 The very status of libertinity involved its holder in the duties of obsequium and officium. 1992 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 94 227 Libertinity was not the only route to client status. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1583 |
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