Vicious vs Libertine - What's the difference?
vicious | libertine |
Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:
*:We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious .
Evil, immoral or depraved.
Violent, destructive and cruel.
Savage and aggressive.
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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,
As adjectives the difference between vicious and libertine
is that vicious is pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity while libertine is dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.As a noun libertine is
someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.vicious
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* (obsolete)Adjective
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*Derived terms
* vicious circlelibertine
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(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.