Libertinism

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Libertinism \Lib"er*tin*ism\ (-t[i^]n*[i^]z'm), n.
     1. The state of a libertine or freedman. [R.] --Hammond.
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     2. Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness.
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     3. Licentiousness of principle or opinion.
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              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.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "libertinism":
     broad-mindedness, debauchery, debauchment, dissipation,
     dissoluteness, fastness, free thought, freethinking, gallantry,
     latitudinarianism, liberalism, liberation, libertarianism,
     libertinage, license, licentiousness, open-mindedness, profligacy,
     rakishness, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness, unbridledness,
     venery, wenching, whoring, wildness