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Libertine

SYLLABICATION: lib·er·tine

NOUN: 1. One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person.

     2. One who defies established religious precepts; a freethinker.  

ADJECTIVE: Morally unrestrained; dissolute.

ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, freedman, from Latin lbertnus, from lbertus, from lber, free.

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