Definitions for libertine

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libertine lib·er·tine

Spelling: [lib-er-teen, -tin]

IPA: /ˈlɪb ərˌtin, -tɪn/

Libertine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in libertine (beeiilnrt).

Definitions for libertine

noun

1. a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.
2. a freethinker in religious matters.
3. a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome.

adjective

1. free of moral, especially sexual, restraint; dissolute; licentious.
2. freethinking in religious matters.
3. Archaic. unrestrained; uncontrolled.

Origin of libertine

1350-1400; Middle English libertyn Latin lībertīnus of a freedman (adj.), freedman (noun), equivalent to lībert(us) freedman (apparently by reanalysis of liber-tās lib

Examples for libertine

Even the libertine, that pauper in the realm of Love, wants the perfect life.

libertine as he is, can have no thoughts of any other woman but Clarissa.

But Strauss-Kahn, 63, was leading the private life of a “libertine,” as he has since admitted.

I loved her; but when I loved her I ceased to be a libertine.

She sought to arouse what attention she could by running for governor as the most libertine of libertarians.

Although married to the prominent French heiress and journalist Anne Sinclair, Strauss-Kahn was a libertine of the old school.

To speak the truth you are simply playing the game of a libertine.

And they were both these libertine figures during their lives.

In this way, bisexual is code for libertine, which is something else altogether.

"It was that libertine brother-in-law of mine, the Duke of Gandia," he said.