libertinism

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Twenty-three years later, there’s a new yearning for that era, when dance music embodied tech-juiced libertinism and invention.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2025

But to return to Silicon Valley: there is even a term for the school of thought that defines this synthesis of counterculture libertinism and techno-utopianism: it is called the California Ideology.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2019

As a flip side to his alleged libertinism, Hart was a moral scold.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2018

By the early 18th century, moral instability encouraged both libertinism and chiliasm.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2018

They blamed the excessive riches, the idleness, the libertinism of the clergy; and pointed out their treasures and revenues as lawful spoil to the first invader.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by Hume, David