libertinage
See also: Libertinage
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French libertinage.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlibertinage (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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editFrench
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlibertinage 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.
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