(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 .
Seeker
Definition:
(n.) One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
(n.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.
Example Sentences:
(1) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(2) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(3) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
(4) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(5) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(6) Labor’s left faction is yet to settle its position on the politically controversial issue of turning back asylum-seeker boats , ahead of the party’s national conference at the end of the month.
(7) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(8) I think there have been concerns expressed going back to our time in government about ensuring safety at sea in all of these operations, including the possibility of turnbacks, safety at sea not only for asylum seekers but also importantly for Australian personnel.
(9) But a former Manus immigration caseworker, Liz Thompson, told Guardian Australia on Tuesday she was aware of at least three cases where asylum seekers on Manus had presented their sexuality as a reason for their persecution during protection interviews since September last year, indicating the department would be well aware there were gay asylum seekers on Manus.
(10) Also, we’ve had a number of people want to donate directly to the asylum seekers we’re following for this series - Said and Wali Khan Norzai .
(11) Quite a few have been referred over their reporting on the government’s asylum seeker policies.
(12) The review, conducted by Keith Hamburger, a former director general of the Queensland Corrective Services Commission, found that asylum seekers had been told in March 2013 that their claims would be completed within four to six months.
(13) In an extensive interview with Guardian Australia, Coleman spoke out for the first time about the state of Australia’s asylum-seeker policies.
(14) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
(15) This is how powerful a hold it has over them.” Mossino, who works with refugees and asylum seekers as well as victims of trafficking, says that in the past decade the trade in Nigerian women has become a hugely profitable and ruthless criminal industry, controlled largely by Nigerian gangs that took root in Italy in the 1980s.
(16) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
(17) There is strong support across parties for Britain to act.” The children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, giving evidence to the Lords’ committee on unaccompanied minors in the EU, said too many unaccompanied asylum seekers went missing from local authority care after they had been allocated a home.
(18) Tensions on the island escalated in February leading to widespread unrest, dozens of serious injuries and the death of an Iranian asylum seeker, Reza Barati.
(19) No asylum seeker on Manus has had a refugee claim processed.
(20) The summit is likely to agree new hotspots in Greece and Italy where asylum seekers can have their claims processed.