Meaning

3 senses
  1. (historical)Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.

  2. One who is freethinking in religious matters.

  3. Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.

    распу́тникraspútnik, развра́тникrazvrátnik

More definitions
  • a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Last night the young lady's libertine activities hurt the front wall of her vagina.

  2. He is a libertine.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
someone loose in morals:

Origin

From Latin libertinus (“a freedman, prop. adj., of or belonging to the condition of a free

From Latin libertinus (“a freedman, prop. adj., of or belonging to the condition of a freedman”), from libertus (“a freedman”), from liber (“free”); see liberal, liberate.

From French libertin.

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