libertinage

Unadapted borrowing from French libertinage.

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

libertinage (countable and uncountable, plural libertinages)

1. 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 […]

• libertinism

From libertin +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /li.bɛʁ.ti.naʒ/

libertinage m (plural libertinages)

1. the conduct or activities of a libertine; licentiousness
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Cet amour sans libertinage était pour lui quelque chose de nouveau, et qui, le sortant de ses habitudes faciles, caressait à la fois son orgueil et sa sensualité.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → English: libertinage
• → German: Libertinage
• → Romanian: libertinaj

• “libertinage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012