Definition for
libertine
noun –
At Aberdeen University, a free scholar; one who has no bursary. See
noun – In Roman history, a freedman; a person manumitted or set free from legal servitude.
noun – A member of a Jewish synagogue mentioned in Acts vi. 9, probably composed of descendants of Jewish freedmen who had been expelled from Rome by Tiberius, and had returned to Palestine.
noun – A freeman of an incorporate town or city.
noun – One who is free from or does not submit to restraint; one who is free in thought and action.
noun – One who holds loose views with regard to the laws of religion or morality; an irreligious person; a free-thinker.
noun – [capitalized] A member of a pantheistic, antinomian sect which existed about 1530 in France and neighboring countries.
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