Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Libertinism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or belief of a libertine or free-thinker; laxity of opinion.
- noun The conduct of a libertine or debauchee.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Libertinism; license.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The conduct or activities of a
libertine ;licentiousness
Etymologies
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Examples
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He wrote of some Frenchmen and Indians as living in a state that he called libertinage and license, which was in his thinking the vice of liberty and the anarchy of selfishness, egoism, personal autonomy, and individual self-seeking.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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He wrote of some Frenchmen and Indians as living in a state that he called libertinage and license, which was in his thinking the vice of liberty and the anarchy of selfishness, egoism, personal autonomy, and individual self-seeking.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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One of the words Brown uses most often in private to describe the Tory leader is "libertarian": a word that conveys his belief that Cameron's "compassionate conservatism" is mere window-dressing, but also hints at a decadent strain of Tory libertinage, drug-taking and yacht-fondling.
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In other words, it has led to post-hippy, postmodern anarchy and libertinage -- or to various forms of secular-government religions such as national socialism, fascism, and communism.
Government Fundamentalists, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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More likely, the potential dad pool is not daydreaming about sacrificing the peak years of libertinage for a single woman and sober family life.
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There is a difference between freedom of speech and libertinage; the two news stations that were closed where used to promote riots and to preach incoherent news such as “it was a bad thing that the holocaust did not eliminate all the Jews”… Even hugo Lloren sent a letter to the president of such station because such disparate was put on the air.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “CRS Report” on Honduras “Coup”: 2009
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One of the words Brown uses most often in private to describe the Tory leader is "libertarian": a word that conveys his belief that Cameron's "compassionate conservatism" is mere window-dressing, but also hints at a decadent strain of Tory libertinage, drug-taking and yacht-fondling.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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There is a difference between freedom of speech and libertinage; the two news stations that were closed where used to promote riots and to preach incoherent news such as “it was a bad thing that the holocaust did not eliminate all the Jews”… Even hugo Lloren sent a letter to the president of such station because such disparate was put on the air.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Release the Koh Memorandum on Honduras 2009
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He had a language to describe an excess of liberty—libertinage, as in our libertine, and license.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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He had a language to describe an excess of liberty—libertinage, as in our libertine, and license.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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