Libertine vs Abandoned - What's the difference?
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One who is freethinking in religious matters.
Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
* 2007 , Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons , tr. Helen Constantine, Penguin 2007, p. 123,
Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents
* (rfdate), Thomson:
Free from constraint; uninhibited.
* 1919 , :
(geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
(abandon)
Libertine is a related term of abandoned.
As adjectives the difference between libertine and abandoned
is that libertine is dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals while abandoned is self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain .As a noun libertine
is (historical) someone freed from slavery in ancient rome; a freedman or libertine can be one who is freethinking in religious matters.As a verb abandoned is
(abandon).libertine
English
(wikipedia libertine)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; see liberal, liberate.Etymology 2
From (etyl) libertinNoun
(en noun)- So the truth of the matter is that a libertine' in love, if indeed a ' libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh.
Synonyms
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.