English Dictionary: libertinism | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Libertinism \Lib"er*tin*ism\ (-t[icr]n*[icr]z'm), n. 1. The state of a libertine or freedman. [R.] --Hammond. 2. Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness. 3. Licentiousness of principle or opinion. That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. --Atterbury. |