Liberty or liberty means freedom, personal or political --
"My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty..."
One person's liberty ends where another's begins.
Libertine or libertine is an old-fashioned term for a person of loose morals, a party animal or playboy --
He wants to live like a libertine of the 18th century.
They called him a libertine because he lived with several different women, but never married.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"She was a real libertine; she advocated social and sexual liberty, among other things."
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