Monday 14 October 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Libertine

lib-er-tine



noun :: A person who is unrestrained by convention or morality; specifically one leading a dissolute life. A freethinker.



"In his youth he had been a dissolute libertine, but was converted by Mother Ann herself, and had partaken of the wild fanaticism of the early Shakers." --Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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