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Definition of Libertines
1. libertine [n] - See also: libertine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Libertines
Literary usage of Libertines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"9., synagogues belonging to the Alexandrians, the Asiatics, the Cilicians, the
libertines, and the Cyrenians, which were erected for such Jewish inhabitants ..."
2. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1896)
"Against Calvin were the libertines, as they were styled. ... United with the "
Spirituels," as this class of libertines was termed, were the Patriots, ..."
3. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"United with the "Spirituels," as this class of libertines was termed, were the
Patriots, as they styled themselves; those who were for maintaining the ..."
4. The Works of Monsieur De La Bruyere: In Two Volumes. ... The Sixth Edition by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe (1713)
"Of the WITS or libertines: the former is convinc'd and ... in Courts and rule
there by turns } the libertines and the Hypocrites : The one openly, gayly, ..."
5. Religious Denominations of the World by Vincent L. Milner, John Newton Brown, Hannah Adams (1872)
"libertines. THE libertines were a religious sect which arose in the year 1525,
whose principal tenets were, that the Deity was the sole operating cause in ..."
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