Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LIB'ER-TINE
LIB'ER-TINE, n. [L. libertinus, from liber, free.]
- Among the Romans, a freedman; a person manumitted or set free from legal servitude.
- One unconfined; one free from restraint.
- A man who lives without restraint of the animal passion; one who indulges his lust without restraint; one who leads a dissolute, licentious life; a rake; a debauchee.
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