libertinage
See also: Libertinage
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French libertinage.
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Noun edit
libertinage (countable and uncountable, plural libertinages)
- The conduct or activities of a libertine; licentiousness.
- 1965, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and other Writings:
- Destroy, with entire unpity, raze to the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progeny of the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom there every day spews forth into society a swarm of new-made creatures […]
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French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
libertinage m (plural libertinages)
- the conduct or activities of a libertine; licentiousness
Descendants edit
- → English: libertinage
- → German: Libertinage
- → Romanian: libertinaj
Further reading edit
- “libertinage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.