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Libertine

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(1):

(n.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

(2):

(n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.

(3):

(n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled.

(4):

(n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker.

(5):

(n.) 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.

(6):

(n.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Libertine'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/libertine.html. 1828.
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