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Webster 1913 Edition


Libertinism

Lib′er-tin-ism

(-tĭn-ĭz’m)
,
Noun.
1.
The state of a libertine or freedman.
[R.]
Hammond.
2.
Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness.
3.
Licentiousness of principle or opinion.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Libertinism

LIB'ERTINISM

, n.
1.
State of a freedman. [Little used.]
2.
Licentiousness of opinion and practice; an unrestrained indulgence of lust; debauchery; lewdness.