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Discover LudwigThe word 'libertinism' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun which refers to a lifestyle of unrestrained behavior, including sexual promiscuity. For example, you could say "The author's use of scandalous behavior as the main plot device was an example of libertinism".
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libertinism
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A lifestyle or pattern of behavior characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority.
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As for Rick Santorum, the holier-than-everybody über-Catholic who thinks contraception is "dangerous" and leads to "libertinism", the most outrage he could manage on Fluke's behalf was to call Limbaugh's comments "absurd", the licensed remarks of an "entertainer".
Miserable and lonely, Fonteyn was considering divorce when a rival politician's bullet put an end to de Arias's libertinism and restored him, paralysed, to her devotion.It makes a good story, on and off stage, and Ms Daneman is a writer who cares about words and pace and shape.
It is assailed by a creeping culture of sexual libertinism and by readily-available divorce.
Red Sorghum had broken into two: sexual libertinism and truth-telling about the war with Japan.
Don Juan, fictitious character who is a symbol of libertinism.
Fabian idealism crashes into neo-pagan libertinism - notably in the fruity figure of Olive's radical but "randy" consort, Humphry.
In the 1990s he made efforts to become a cultural leader in this struggle, going so far as to oppose the traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro with a "festival of prayer", which he saw as opposing trends towards sexual libertinism in modern Brazil.
Other critics, including some prominent conservatives, have insisted that libertarianism is an amoral philosophy of libertinism in which the law loses its character as a source of moral instruction.
With the rise of feminism, many came to regard male libertinism as a threat to women's status and physical health.
He translated a number of the Psalms and is said to have died with expressions of remorse for a life of libertinism.
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That freedom seems to foster a certain breed of cyber-libertinism.
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