Dictionary entry

Libertinism

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Lib″er‐tin‐ism (–tĭn‐ĭz'm), n. 1. The state of a libertine or freedman. Hammond.

2. Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness.

3. Licentiousness of principle or opinion.

That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. Atterbury.