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 libertine ['libәti:n]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 放荡者, 玩乐者, 浪子, 自由思想家

a. 放荡的




    libertine
    [ noun ]
    1. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

    2. <noun.person>
    [ adj ]
    1. unrestrained by convention or morality

    2. <adj.all>
      Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
      deplorably dissipated and degraded
      riotous living
      fast women


    Libertine \Lib"er*tine\ (-t[i^]n), n. [L. libertinus freedman,
    from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin.
    See {Liberal}.]
    1. (Rom. Antiq.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the
    son of a freedman.

    2. (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.

    3. 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.

    4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsolescent]


    Libertine \Lib"er*tine\, a. [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F.
    libertin. See {Libertine}, n. ]
    1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.]

    You are too much libertine. --Beau. & Fl.

    2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as,
    libertine principles or manners. --Bacon.

    1. He shows too many pangs of conscience, too much gentlemanly courtesy, to rank as a libertine. Sensuality is in short supply, not least in the Serenade and there is no sign of debauchery.
    2. There is only one way for Madonna to go; like many a medieval libertine she will no doubt end up in some religious cloister, finally living up up to her name.
    3. The book has created a literary controversy because it deals with a sensitive subject and because of its demythologizing portrayal of the man known as "the Liberator" as a foul-mouthed libertine.
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