Doubtless the levity and licence of the libertins in high places [576] confirmed him in his revolt against unbelief; but his own credence was an act rather of despairing emotion than of rational conviction.
The statement that the libertinsformed the majority of "the world" is of course a furious extravagance.
Le Vassor speaks in the same preface of "this multitude of libertins and of unbelievers which now terrifies us.
He suspected a considerable organised force behind this Cabale des Devots, who represented austerity at Court, and whom the Libertinsof the Louvre ridiculed.
As he never read, the assaults of the Libertins rendered him the service of slightly moving his ideas; they deranged him in his habits of mechanical practices.
Troubles at Geneva--Berthelier and the chiefs of the Libertinsare refused admission to the Lord's Table.
The newly-elected Syndics made common cause with the malcontents, and already gave signs of the forthcoming crisis which was to lead the way to the triumph of the party of the Libertins and the banishment of the Ministers.
This was the treatise, Contre la Secte Fantastique et Furieuse des Libertins qui se disent Spirituels.
Lecky, Rationalism, i, 97, citing Maury, as to the resistance of libertins to the superstition about witchcraft.
The above-cited tenets are, in fact, partly identical with those of the libertins denounced at Geneva by Calvin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "libertins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
