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libertine

libertine is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.
  2. 2.One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.
  3. 3.A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsoles.]
  4. 4.Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.] You are too much libertine. Beau. & Fl.
  5. 5.Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. Bacon.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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