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libertine

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++lib·er·tine /ˈlɪbətiːn $ -ər-/ noun [countable] literary  BAD PERSONsomeone who leads an immoral life and always looks for pleasure, especially sexual pleasure 〔尤指在两性关系上〕放荡不羁的人libertine adjective
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libertineFor if a libertine knows he can indulge himself with impunity, he will throw all cautions to the winds.Take one step away from those laws and you become a lecher, a libertine, an assassin.Although he is quite a libertine with the women, this particular President, I understand.Much emphasis was placed on the raffish past, with roll-calls of distinguished libertines.But the libertine who turned to religion in maturity seemed to get undue credit.
Origin libertine (1300-1400) Latin libertinus free person, from liber; → LIBERTY
lib·er·tine nounChineseSyllable
and life immoral an who someone leads Corpus


libertine
libertine /ˈlɪbətiːn $ -ər-/ noun [countable] literary
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Latin
 Origin: libertinus 'free person', from liber; liberty
someone who leads an immoral life and always looks for pleasure, especially sexual pleasure
—libertine adjective


lib·er·tineBrE /ˈlɪbətiːn/ 🔊NAmE /ˈlɪbərtiːn/ 🔊 noun (formal, disapproving) a person, usually a man, who leads an immoral life and is interested in pleasure, especially sexual pleasure 放荡的男人;放荡不羁的人;浪荡公子