Definition of libertine in English:

libertine

noun ˈlɪbətɪnˈlɪbətiːnˈlɪbətʌɪnˈlɪbərˌtin

1A person, especially a man, who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles.
his image as an unbridled libertine is a total myth
Example sentencesExamples
- So when did he discover his penchant for playing bad boys and dangerous libertines?
- Her newly found manuscript shows that she thought he was a libertine who had set out to seduce her.
- The tradition-bound father is reserved and tyrannical at home, but when he is away from home at night, he is a libertine - drinking and womanizing.
- A libertine is a hedonist, a devotee of personal pleasure, whereas a libertarian is one who defends the libertine and his lifestyle against the heavy hand of government.
- Will the aging boomer libertines and the sexual moralists in the party be able to get along?
- They are libertines, people who have gone with the contemporary cultural flow of destroying moral rules and boundaries.
- The principal character is a delinquent libertine, Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel.
- Shelley, who knew him almost as well as anyone, believed that Byron was never a revolutionary so much as a libertine.
- The libertine appeared to have finally turned his back on man.
- Post-moral tradition-hating libertines might do well to pause in the midst of their celebrations to consider this.
- Second, to be libertarian is not necessarily to be a libertine.
Synonyms
philanderer, ladies' man, playboy, rake, roué, loose-liver, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova, Romeo
lecher, seducer, womanizer, adulterer, debauchee, sensualist, voluptuary, hedonist
profligate, wanton, reprobate, degenerate
informal stud, skirt-chaser, ladykiller, lech, wolf
dated rip, blood, gay dog
formal fornicator
2A freethinker in matters of religion.
Example sentencesExamples
- The same goes for gnostic Christianity, where we had the strict ascetics on the one hand and the extreme libertines on the other.
- He championed victims of injustice and the public came to view him not as an impudent libertine but as a patriarch and a sage.
- Some libertines started claiming to have pacts with Satan, while still others said the devil himself presided over the soirées.
- Certainly she is a very rigorous, not to say humourless, libertine.
- Gabriel comes across as a libertine and something of anarchist.
- In the 1630s as well as the 1670s, Boston was inhabited by libertines as well as orthodox Puritans, but in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, town leaders feared that they were losing control.

adjective ˈlɪbətɪnˈlɪbətiːnˈlɪbətʌɪnˈlɪbərˌtin

1Characterized by free indulgence in sensual pleasures.
his more libertine impulses
Example sentencesExamples
- The fear is that conservative groups could use a clause in the Bill which limits the kind of sexual information that can be given to minors to wage war on the magazines' libertine approach to under-age sex.
- We'll all pretend to be duly chastised by our libertine ways and pay obeisance to those good heartland values that neither they nor we actually live by.
- My friend graduated from photography school in New York, and, like many artists, plunged into a libertine lifestyle with more than a little enthusiasm.
- The prince had become foolhardy and libertine.
- In the libertine Utopia of ‘sexual freedom,’ women and children will suffer the most.
- One entry examined Lord Byron, whose libertine life and poetic license Porter clearly admired.
- Tourism is associated in the minds of many ordinary Egyptians with a libertine lifestyle offensive to the puritanism of Muslim piety.
- She's pretty, clean, and libertine - everything you could ever want in a French woman.
- Indeed, the health consequences of the libertine life-style are, when compared with the consequences of smoking, truly disastrous.
Synonyms
licentious, lustful, libidinous, lecherous, lascivious, lubricious, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, immoral, wanton, shameless, degenerate, depraved, debased, profligate, promiscuous, unchaste, lewd, prurient, salacious, indecent, immodest, impure, carnal, intemperate, abandoned, unrestrained, unprincipled, reprobate
rakish, decadent, sensual, voluptuary, hedonistic
informal loose, fast, goatish, randy, horny, raunchy
rare concupiscent, lickerish
2Freethinking.
Example sentencesExamples
- For so long, many religious conservatives have fought for laws to be passed in the face of a culture that was very libertine and pro-choice.
- I simply take this logic to its conclusion and point out that this woman's wanton and libertine approach to grace is the camel's nose under the tent.

Derivatives

libertinage

noun ˈlɪbətiːnədʒˈlɪbərˌtinədʒ

Yet the discussion of the family in the Philosophy of Right is in general more conservative and criticizes the emphasis on free love as leading to libertinage and promiscuity.
Example sentencesExamples
- France, alas, also fails to live up to its reputation for libertinage.
- Presumably, Sébastien has become what he is in part as a response to his father's libertinage.

libertinism

noun ˈlɪbətiːˌnɪz(ə)mˈlɪbərˌtiˌnɪzəm

We are being returned to the 18th century, that dissolute era of libertinism and lotteries.
Example sentencesExamples
- There is more than a hint of hedonism, indeed a new libertinism.
- Where such traditions are absent or weak, popular sovereignty easily turns into populist dictatorship, liberal democracy to libertinism and demagoguery.
- It's quite possible to reject social conservatism without falling into some exaggerated libertinism.
- It seems, then, that the alliance between an adequate philosophy of man and a free market economy corresponds more to the true essence of a market economy than does an alliance with libertinism.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a freed slave or the son of one): from Latin libertinus 'freedman', from liber 'free'. In the mid 16th century, imitating French libertin, the term denoted a member of any of various antinomian sects in France; hence sense 2 of the noun.

Definition of libertine in US English:

libertine

nounˈlɪbərˌtinˈlibərˌtēn

1A person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters.
Example sentencesExamples
- The tradition-bound father is reserved and tyrannical at home, but when he is away from home at night, he is a libertine - drinking and womanizing.
- So when did he discover his penchant for playing bad boys and dangerous libertines?
- The principal character is a delinquent libertine, Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel.
- They are libertines, people who have gone with the contemporary cultural flow of destroying moral rules and boundaries.
- A libertine is a hedonist, a devotee of personal pleasure, whereas a libertarian is one who defends the libertine and his lifestyle against the heavy hand of government.
- Her newly found manuscript shows that she thought he was a libertine who had set out to seduce her.
- Shelley, who knew him almost as well as anyone, believed that Byron was never a revolutionary so much as a libertine.
- The libertine appeared to have finally turned his back on man.
- Will the aging boomer libertines and the sexual moralists in the party be able to get along?
- Post-moral tradition-hating libertines might do well to pause in the midst of their celebrations to consider this.
- Second, to be libertarian is not necessarily to be a libertine.
Synonyms
philanderer, ladies' man, playboy, rake, roué, loose-liver, don juan, lothario, casanova, romeo
2A person who rejects accepted opinions in matters of religion; a freethinker.
Example sentencesExamples
- He championed victims of injustice and the public came to view him not as an impudent libertine but as a patriarch and a sage.
- Some libertines started claiming to have pacts with Satan, while still others said the devil himself presided over the soirées.
- In the 1630s as well as the 1670s, Boston was inhabited by libertines as well as orthodox Puritans, but in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, town leaders feared that they were losing control.
- Gabriel comes across as a libertine and something of anarchist.
- Certainly she is a very rigorous, not to say humourless, libertine.
- The same goes for gnostic Christianity, where we had the strict ascetics on the one hand and the extreme libertines on the other.

adjectiveˈlɪbərˌtinˈlibərˌtēn

1Characterized by a disregard of morality, especially in sexual matters.
his more libertine impulses
Example sentencesExamples
- We'll all pretend to be duly chastised by our libertine ways and pay obeisance to those good heartland values that neither they nor we actually live by.
- In the libertine Utopia of ‘sexual freedom,’ women and children will suffer the most.
- The prince had become foolhardy and libertine.
- Tourism is associated in the minds of many ordinary Egyptians with a libertine lifestyle offensive to the puritanism of Muslim piety.
- My friend graduated from photography school in New York, and, like many artists, plunged into a libertine lifestyle with more than a little enthusiasm.
- The fear is that conservative groups could use a clause in the Bill which limits the kind of sexual information that can be given to minors to wage war on the magazines' libertine approach to under-age sex.
- One entry examined Lord Byron, whose libertine life and poetic license Porter clearly admired.
- She's pretty, clean, and libertine - everything you could ever want in a French woman.
- Indeed, the health consequences of the libertine life-style are, when compared with the consequences of smoking, truly disastrous.
Synonyms
licentious, lustful, libidinous, lecherous, lascivious, lubricious, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, immoral, wanton, shameless, degenerate, depraved, debased, profligate, promiscuous, unchaste, lewd, prurient, salacious, indecent, immodest, impure, carnal, intemperate, abandoned, unrestrained, unprincipled, reprobate
2Freethinking in matters of religion.
Example sentencesExamples
- I simply take this logic to its conclusion and point out that this woman's wanton and libertine approach to grace is the camel's nose under the tent.
- For so long, many religious conservatives have fought for laws to be passed in the face of a culture that was very libertine and pro-choice.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a freed slave or the son of one): from Latin libertinus ‘freedman’, from liber ‘free’. In the mid 16th century, imitating French libertin, the term denoted a member of any of various antinomian sects in France; hence libertine (sense 2 of the noun).

单词	libertine
释义	Definition of libertine in English: libertine noun ˈlɪbətɪnˈlɪbətiːnˈlɪbətʌɪnˈlɪbərˌtin 1A person, especially a man, who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles. his image as an unbridled libertine is a total myth Example sentencesExamples So when did he discover his penchant for playing bad boys and dangerous libertines? Her newly found manuscript shows that she thought he was a libertine who had set out to seduce her. The tradition-bound father is reserved and tyrannical at home, but when he is away from home at night, he is a libertine - drinking and womanizing. A libertine is a hedonist, a devotee of personal pleasure, whereas a libertarian is one who defends the libertine and his lifestyle against the heavy hand of government. Will the aging boomer libertines and the sexual moralists in the party be able to get along? They are libertines, people who have gone with the contemporary cultural flow of destroying moral rules and boundaries. The principal character is a delinquent libertine, Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel. Shelley, who knew him almost as well as anyone, believed that Byron was never a revolutionary so much as a libertine. The libertine appeared to have finally turned his back on man. Post-moral tradition-hating libertines might do well to pause in the midst of their celebrations to consider this. Second, to be libertarian is not necessarily to be a libertine. Synonyms philanderer, ladies' man, playboy, rake, roué, loose-liver, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova, Romeo lecher, seducer, womanizer, adulterer, debauchee, sensualist, voluptuary, hedonist profligate, wanton, reprobate, degenerate informal stud, skirt-chaser, ladykiller, lech, wolf dated rip, blood, gay dog formal fornicator 2A freethinker in matters of religion. Example sentencesExamples The same goes for gnostic Christianity, where we had the strict ascetics on the one hand and the extreme libertines on the other. He championed victims of injustice and the public came to view him not as an impudent libertine but as a patriarch and a sage. Some libertines started claiming to have pacts with Satan, while still others said the devil himself presided over the soirées. Certainly she is a very rigorous, not to say humourless, libertine. Gabriel comes across as a libertine and something of anarchist. In the 1630s as well as the 1670s, Boston was inhabited by libertines as well as orthodox Puritans, but in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, town leaders feared that they were losing control. adjective ˈlɪbətɪnˈlɪbətiːnˈlɪbətʌɪnˈlɪbərˌtin 1Characterized by free indulgence in sensual pleasures. his more libertine impulses Example sentencesExamples The fear is that conservative groups could use a clause in the Bill which limits the kind of sexual information that can be given to minors to wage war on the magazines' libertine approach to under-age sex. We'll all pretend to be duly chastised by our libertine ways and pay obeisance to those good heartland values that neither they nor we actually live by. My friend graduated from photography school in New York, and, like many artists, plunged into a libertine lifestyle with more than a little enthusiasm. The prince had become foolhardy and libertine. In the libertine Utopia of ‘sexual freedom,’ women and children will suffer the most. One entry examined Lord Byron, whose libertine life and poetic license Porter clearly admired. Tourism is associated in the minds of many ordinary Egyptians with a libertine lifestyle offensive to the puritanism of Muslim piety. She's pretty, clean, and libertine - everything you could ever want in a French woman. Indeed, the health consequences of the libertine life-style are, when compared with the consequences of smoking, truly disastrous. Synonyms licentious, lustful, libidinous, lecherous, lascivious, lubricious, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, immoral, wanton, shameless, degenerate, depraved, debased, profligate, promiscuous, unchaste, lewd, prurient, salacious, indecent, immodest, impure, carnal, intemperate, abandoned, unrestrained, unprincipled, reprobate rakish, decadent, sensual, voluptuary, hedonistic informal loose, fast, goatish, randy, horny, raunchy rare concupiscent, lickerish 2Freethinking. Example sentencesExamples For so long, many religious conservatives have fought for laws to be passed in the face of a culture that was very libertine and pro-choice. I simply take this logic to its conclusion and point out that this woman's wanton and libertine approach to grace is the camel's nose under the tent. Derivatives libertinage noun ˈlɪbətiːnədʒˈlɪbərˌtinədʒ Yet the discussion of the family in the Philosophy of Right is in general more conservative and criticizes the emphasis on free love as leading to libertinage and promiscuity. Example sentencesExamples France, alas, also fails to live up to its reputation for libertinage. Presumably, Sébastien has become what he is in part as a response to his father's libertinage. libertinism noun ˈlɪbətiːˌnɪz(ə)mˈlɪbərˌtiˌnɪzəm We are being returned to the 18th century, that dissolute era of libertinism and lotteries. Example sentencesExamples There is more than a hint of hedonism, indeed a new libertinism. Where such traditions are absent or weak, popular sovereignty easily turns into populist dictatorship, liberal democracy to libertinism and demagoguery. It's quite possible to reject social conservatism without falling into some exaggerated libertinism. It seems, then, that the alliance between an adequate philosophy of man and a free market economy corresponds more to the true essence of a market economy than does an alliance with libertinism. Origin Late Middle English (denoting a freed slave or the son of one): from Latin libertinus 'freedman', from liber 'free'. In the mid 16th century, imitating French libertin, the term denoted a member of any of various antinomian sects in France; hence sense 2 of the noun. Definition of libertine in US English: libertine nounˈlɪbərˌtinˈlibərˌtēn 1A person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters. Example sentencesExamples The tradition-bound father is reserved and tyrannical at home, but when he is away from home at night, he is a libertine - drinking and womanizing. So when did he discover his penchant for playing bad boys and dangerous libertines? The principal character is a delinquent libertine, Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel. They are libertines, people who have gone with the contemporary cultural flow of destroying moral rules and boundaries. A libertine is a hedonist, a devotee of personal pleasure, whereas a libertarian is one who defends the libertine and his lifestyle against the heavy hand of government. Her newly found manuscript shows that she thought he was a libertine who had set out to seduce her. Shelley, who knew him almost as well as anyone, believed that Byron was never a revolutionary so much as a libertine. The libertine appeared to have finally turned his back on man. Will the aging boomer libertines and the sexual moralists in the party be able to get along? Post-moral tradition-hating libertines might do well to pause in the midst of their celebrations to consider this. Second, to be libertarian is not necessarily to be a libertine. Synonyms philanderer, ladies' man, playboy, rake, roué, loose-liver, don juan, lothario, casanova, romeo 2A person who rejects accepted opinions in matters of religion; a freethinker. Example sentencesExamples He championed victims of injustice and the public came to view him not as an impudent libertine but as a patriarch and a sage. Some libertines started claiming to have pacts with Satan, while still others said the devil himself presided over the soirées. In the 1630s as well as the 1670s, Boston was inhabited by libertines as well as orthodox Puritans, but in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, town leaders feared that they were losing control. Gabriel comes across as a libertine and something of anarchist. Certainly she is a very rigorous, not to say humourless, libertine. The same goes for gnostic Christianity, where we had the strict ascetics on the one hand and the extreme libertines on the other. adjectiveˈlɪbərˌtinˈlibərˌtēn 1Characterized by a disregard of morality, especially in sexual matters. his more libertine impulses Example sentencesExamples We'll all pretend to be duly chastised by our libertine ways and pay obeisance to those good heartland values that neither they nor we actually live by. In the libertine Utopia of ‘sexual freedom,’ women and children will suffer the most. The prince had become foolhardy and libertine. Tourism is associated in the minds of many ordinary Egyptians with a libertine lifestyle offensive to the puritanism of Muslim piety. My friend graduated from photography school in New York, and, like many artists, plunged into a libertine lifestyle with more than a little enthusiasm. The fear is that conservative groups could use a clause in the Bill which limits the kind of sexual information that can be given to minors to wage war on the magazines' libertine approach to under-age sex. One entry examined Lord Byron, whose libertine life and poetic license Porter clearly admired. She's pretty, clean, and libertine - everything you could ever want in a French woman. Indeed, the health consequences of the libertine life-style are, when compared with the consequences of smoking, truly disastrous. Synonyms licentious, lustful, libidinous, lecherous, lascivious, lubricious, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, immoral, wanton, shameless, degenerate, depraved, debased, profligate, promiscuous, unchaste, lewd, prurient, salacious, indecent, immodest, impure, carnal, intemperate, abandoned, unrestrained, unprincipled, reprobate 2Freethinking in matters of religion. Example sentencesExamples I simply take this logic to its conclusion and point out that this woman's wanton and libertine approach to grace is the camel's nose under the tent. For so long, many religious conservatives have fought for laws to be passed in the face of a culture that was very libertine and pro-choice. Origin Late Middle English (denoting a freed slave or the son of one): from Latin libertinus ‘freedman’, from liber ‘free’. In the mid 16th century, imitating French libertin, the term denoted a member of any of various antinomian sects in France; hence libertine (sense 2 of the noun).
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