libertine

libertine
/lib"euhr teen', -tin/, n.
1. a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, esp. a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.
2. a freethinker in religious matters.
3. a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome.
adj.
4. free of moral, esp. sexual, restraint; dissolute; licentious.
5. freethinking in religious matters.
6. Archaic. unrestrained; uncontrolled.
[1350-1400; ME libertyn < L libertinus of a freedman (adj.), freedman (n.), equiv. to libert(us) freedman (appar. by reanalysis of liber-tas LIBERTY as libert-as) + -inus -INE1]
Syn. 1. roué, debauchee, lecher, sensualist. 4. amoral, sensual, lascivious, lewd.
Ant. 1. prude.

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