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  1. 1. n. A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman. Source: opted
  2. 2. 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. Source: opted
  3. 3. 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. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. A defamatory name for a freethinker. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. Source: opted
  7. 7. adj. unrestrained by convention or morality Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained Source: wordnet
  9. 9. 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. [Obsoles.] 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. Source: webster
  10. 10. A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman. Source: adambom
  11. 11. j:44/n:56 n. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained Source: ecdict

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