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A libertine is defined as a person who rejects religious truths, or is someone who behaves in an immoral manner (especially a man who engages in immoral sexual behavior).

(noun)

A man who sleeps around with lots of different women and who is irresponsible and immoral in the way he conducts himself with those women is an example of a libertine.

The definition of libertine is someone who has a lack of morality, or someone who rejects customary religious beliefs and thinks freely.

(adjective)

Promiscuous behavior and sleeping around are an example of something that would be described as libertine actions.
Deciding that the Catholic church is wrong and you are going to believe in your own religion is an example of behavior that would be described as libertine.

See libertine in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

in ancient Rome, a person who had been freed from slavery
Origin: prob. via Fr libertin
a person, esp. a man, who leads an unrestrained, sexually immoral life; rake
Archaic a freethinker

Origin: ME libertyn < L libertinus < libertus, freedman < liber, free: see liberal

adjective

morally unrestrained; licentious

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