ing, sundering, severance, severing; loosening, detachment, detaching, undoing, unfastening; extrication, extricating, extraction, extracting; distillation, distilling, Both Chem. sublimation, sublimating,

liberator, n. rescuer, savior, emancipator, freer, deliverer, redeemer, manumitter.

libertine, n. 1. profligate, wanton, lecher, de bauchee, debaucher, dissipator; sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary, prodigal, hedonist, epicurean; rake, rake-hell, rou£, gallant; playboy, fast man, fancy man, Inf. rip, Sl. swinger, free-lover, philanderer, loose liver; adulterer, fornicator, seducer, Inf. wolf; womanizer, lady killer, flirt, bedhopper, chaser, lover; Don Juan, Lothario, Cassanova; whoremonger, whoremaster, pimp, gigolo; rapist, raper, violator, ravisher; satyr, goat, old goat, Sl. dirty old man, pervert, Sl. flasher, Sl. letch.
2. freethinker, liberal, free spirit, libertarian, latitu-dinarian; independent, individualist, humanist, ecu-menicist.
-adj. 3. dissolute, dissipated, rakehell, degenerate; decadent, debauched, depraved, amoral; profligate, wanton, abandoned, incontinent, intemperate, Paphic; immoral, unchaste, shameless, unvirtuous, impure, sinful; licentious, lewd, lecherous, lascivious, lubricous, Archaic, lickerish; prurient, libidinous, salacious, concupiscent, ruttish; goatish, hircine, satyric, priapic, randy, Sl. horny; carnal, sensual, animal, bestial, brutish.
4. freethinking, libertarian, latitudinarian, liberal, liberal-minded, independent; catholic, humanistic, ecumenical, unprovincial, unparochial; open-minded, broad-minded, broad, large-minded, tolerant; unbig-oted, unprejudiced, unbiased,

libertinism, n. 1. freethinking, libertarianism, latitudinarianism, free thought; liberality, liberalism, humanism, catholicity, ecumenism, ecumenicalism, unparochialism, unprovincialism; open-mindedness, broad-mindedness, broadness, latitude, large-mindedness, toleration; unbigotedness, unprejudicedness, unbiasedness, impartiality.
2. profligacy, debauchery, dissipation, dissolution, dissoluteness, prodigality; sensualism, sybaritism, hedonism; degeneracy, decadence, immorality, amoral-ity, unchastity, unvirtuousness, shamelessness, impudic-ity; wantonness, abandon, unrestraint, incontinence, intemperance; immoderation, indulgence, overindulgence, self-indulgence; licentiousness, license, lechery, lasciviousness; rakishness, gallantry, satyrism, goatishness; wildness, looseness, laxity, fastness, Inf. swinging, wild living, free living, It. dolce vita; whoring, wenching, womanizing, Sl. letching.

liberty, n. 1. freedom, autonomy, sovereignty; independence, self-determination, self-direction, self-government, self-rule.
2. liberation, emancipation, manumission, disenthrallment, decolonization; release, relief from, riddance from, deregulation, decontrol; discharge, nonconformist, parole, furlough.
3. latitude, range, elbowroom, Ger. Lebensraum; scope, play, swing, margin, discretion, wide berth, rope; nonintervention, noninterference, laissez faire; laxity, looseness, abandon, unrestraint, lawlessness.
4. free will, volition, will, Psychol, conation, velleity; noncoercion, noncompulsion; choice, option, preference, alternative.
5. privilege, prerogative, right, authority; exemption, exception, immunity; license, franchise, authorization; sanction, vouchsafement, permission, unconditional authority, carte blanche, Sl. the run of the place.
6. overfamiliarity, disrespect, impertinence, sauciness, Inf. sauce, impudence, insolence, Inf. brass, Inf.