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Libertine vs Brutish - What's the difference?

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Libertine is a related term of brutish.


As adjectives the difference between libertine and brutish

is that libertine is dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals while brutish is of, or in the manner of a brute.

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.

libertine

English

(wikipedia libertine)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; see liberal, liberate.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) libertin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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,
    • 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

    * See also

    Related terms

    * liberate * liberal * liberty

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.

    • Related terms

    * libertinism * libertinage

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    brutish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or in the manner of a brute
  • Bestial; lacking human sensibility

    • Quotations

    * 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), *: No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish , and short. * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy *: The haggard despair of Cotton-factory, Coal-mine operatives, Farm-labourers, in these days, is painful to behold; but not so painful, hideous to the inner sense, as the brutish god-forgetting Profit-and-Loss Philosophy, and Life-theory, which we hear jangled on all hands of us […] * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

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