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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lib•er•tin•ism (lib′ər tē niz′əm, -ti-),USA pronunciation n. - libertine practices or habits of life;
disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.
Also, lib′er•tin′age. WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024lib•er•tine /ˈlɪbərˌtin/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a person who is morally or sexually uncontrolled.
adj. - licentious;
dissolute.
See -liber-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lib•er•tine (lib′ər tēn′, -tin),USA pronunciation n. - a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, esp. a dissolute man;
a profligate;
rake. - a freethinker in religious matters.
- a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome.
adj. - free of moral, esp. sexual, restraint;
dissolute;
licentious. - freethinking in religious matters.
- [Archaic.]unrestrained;
uncontrolled.
- Latin lībertīnus of a freedman (adjective, adjectival), freedman (noun, nominal), equivalent. to lībert(us) freedman (apparently by reanalysis of liber-tās liberty as libert-ās) + -īnus -ine1
- Middle English libertyn 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged roué, debauchee, lecher, sensualist.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged amoral, sensual, lascivious, lewd.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged prude.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: libertine /ˈlɪbəˌtiːn -ˌtaɪn/ n - a morally dissolute person
adj - morally dissolute
Etymology: 14th Century (in the sense: freedman, dissolute person): from Latin lībertīnus freedman, from lībertus freed, from līber freeˈliberˌtinage, ˈlibertinˌism n |