Definition of libertine

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lib·er·tine    (lbr-tn) KEY 

NOUN:

1. One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person.
2. One who defies established religious precepts; a freethinker.

ADJECTIVE:

Morally unrestrained; dissolute.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, freedman, from Latin lbertnus, from lbertus, from lber, free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots