Libertine vs Chaste - What's the difference?
libertine | chaste |
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,
abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
simple, austere, undecorative
modest, decent, morally pure
As adjectives the difference between libertine and chaste
is that libertine is dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals while chaste is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.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.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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Adjective
(er)- a chaste style in composition or art
- a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes
