libertine
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn/
美 /ˈlɪb.ɚ.tin/
英文释义
名词 n.
- Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
- One who is freethinking in religious matters.
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Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
— So the truth of the matter is that a libertine in love, if indeed a libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh.
形容词 adj.
- Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
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词源
词源 1
From Latin libertinus (“a freedman, prop. adj., of or belonging to the condition of a freedman”), from libertus (“a freedman”), from liber (“free”); see liberal, liberate.
词源 2
From French libertin.
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