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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Latin
Origin: libertinus 'free person', from liber; LIBERTY

libertine

 noun
     
lib‧er‧tine [countable] literary
someone who leads an immoral life and always looks for pleasure, especially sexual pleasure
—libertine adjective
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