What's the difference between libertine and licentious?

Libertine


Definition:

  • (n.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
  • (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.
  • (n.) One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee.
  • (n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker.
  • (n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled.
  • (n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since his arrest, a French taboo has been broken and Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women, deemed "libertine" by his friends, has been raked over.
  • (2) The concrete poet and lyricist Torquato Neto saw Tropicália as "not liberal but libertine".
  • (3) Fresh from positive reviews of their comeback album, the Libertines score their fourth top 40 today with Anthems for Doomed Youth at No 3, while former chart-topper Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh slides two places to No 4.
  • (4) In his late 20s, when The Mighty Boosh became successful, he did start drinking and drugging, hanging out with Amy Winehouse and the Libertines.
  • (5) But I can't help speculating about his fascination with the ruthless libertine, especially since the cast of Amour includes an operatic baritone who was once a notable Don Giovanni: William Shimell plays Huppert's husband, a philandering musician.
  • (6) Meanwhile, Corbyn chants were taking place at other concerts around the country – at a Mac DeMarco gig as well as at the Wirral Live music festival at the Tranmere Rovers’ ground, where Corbyn gave a speech before the Libertines headlined.
  • (7) "He turned up to a Dirty Pretty Things show with loads of free clothes," recalls Carl Barât, Doherty's sometime bandmate, referring to his post-Libertines project.
  • (8) By 1963, media allegations that Profumo had fallen into a honey trap in which Keeler was manipulated by her osteopath friend Stephen Ward (damned by hacks as a reckless libertine with MI5 and Kremlin contacts) into luring her Tory lover to blab nuclear secrets that were passed on to the Kremlin became so nearly ubiquitous that the minister felt compelled to make a statement to the House.
  • (9) The public wasn't informed of the slightly libertine side of his personal life."
  • (10) Sex allegations In last Sunday's Observer Henry Porter compared him to the 18th-century libertine, John Wilkes.
  • (11) "Because we aren't a dance band, because we don't sound like the Libertines.
  • (12) McLaren's provocative influence can be detected in everything from Damien Hirst's art and contrary bands such as the Libertines and Oasis to the mainstream punk clothes on sale in Top Shop.
  • (13) Carl Barat, The French House , Soho, London Carl Barat, former Libertine, in The French House pub in Soho, London.
  • (14) The Georgians were not all freewheeling libertines or enlightened sceptics.
  • (15) While it is absolutely the responsibility of the adult to ensure they do not abuse children, this is irrelevant in the cases under discussion because the victims were not carefree libertines inspired by Erica Jong's notion of the zipless fuck .

Licentious


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.
  • (a.) Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A poll in April found that 43% of Russians considered homosexuality to be "licentiousness, a bad habit" and 35% said it was an "illness or the result of psychological trauma".
  • (2) The paper examines two aspects of coitus interruptus as a sexual practice: (1) how, in the age of fertility decline in Western Europe, its meaning was reinterpreted from an earlier theological view that condemned it as licentious to a nineteenth century view that emphasized restraint, and (2) how it was actually experienced by a socially stratified birth-controlling population in rural Sicily, ca 1900-1970.
  • (3) Fictional stereotypes of Romany women revolve around their supposed sexual licentiousness – Carmen or Esmeralda – or their psychic powers; whereas Romany men have been portrayed at best as symbols of wild freedom, as in DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy or at worst, as liars and thieves.
  • (4) Licentiate theses in nursing science produced in Finland in 1982-87 are analysed in terms of their frame of reference, methodology, data collection techniques and analytical methods.
  • (5) A brief review is given of the Supplementary Licentiate Program in Nursing at a Distance offered by the Nursing Departament of the Valle University, Cali, Colombia.
  • (6) Separately, Chinese-American blogger and outspoken government critic Charles Xue was released on bail on Wednesday after being arrested in August for suspected involvement in prostitution and "group licentiousness", a euphemism for group sex.
  • (7) Of the 264 respondents, 200 were qualified and 50 were interns undergoing training at the local Medical College in Jabalpur, India and 14 were licentiates.
  • (8) Education Epsom College; Guy's hospital and University of Southampton; PhD Disability and equality: a new approach; MSc rehabilitation studies; licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons.
  • (9) He later became disfranchised by the Company of Surgeons in order to obtain the Licentiate of the College of Physicians.
  • (10) George Gilbert Scott Jr, Sir Gilbert's son and another brilliant architect, ended his days, after a drunken and licentious reverie in Paris, divorced and quite mad in one of the bedrooms of the Midland Grand - in the architectural clutches, as it were, of his famous father.
  • (11) The puritan inspectors of souls in 17th-century New England deplored even the tentative embrace of Bacchus as "great licentiousness", the faithful "pouring out themselves in all profaneness", but the record doesn't show a falling off of attendance at Boston's 18th-century inns and taverns.
  • (12) Denmark and Norway have a licentiate degree in addition to the doctor's degree.
  • (13) The licentiate studies in both countries are a three years graduate course with a major subject and 2--3 minors and a research project.
  • (14) This kind of stereotyping – Italians with cowardice, Irish with stupidity, French with licentiousness, Americans with cultural shallowness, English with snobbery or emotional constipation – is mostly associated with rather coarse or lazy habits of mind, but it isn’t generally called antiScotsism, antiItalianism, or antiIrishism etc.
  • (15) The majority of the practitioners recommended that breast feeding be initiated within 12-48 hours after birth, but licentiates advocated beginning breast feeding on the 2nd and 3rd days.