libertinage
See also: Libertinage
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French libertinage.
Pronunciation
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Noun
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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See also
- libertinism
French
Etymology
libertin + -age
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.bɛʁ.ti.naʒ/
Noun
libertinage m (plural libertinages)
- the conduct or activities of a libertine; licentiousness
Descendants
- → English: libertinage
- → German: Libertinage
- → Romanian: libertinaj
Further reading
- “libertinage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.